Topic: Decanter with internal bunch of grapes - Bimini style?

[chopin-liszt]

 :spls:
I have seen fancy bottles very like your grape one, filled with various expensive spirits, for sale in London city airport.

[Frank]

Neither exactly but that would be a possible approach to encasing the pre-made grapes. Note there is no external seam.

[Max]

Mmm...I do agree with Sue.  It has the look of a modern novelty decanter/bottle that would've been sold with spirits inside.  I'm only brave enough to say that now Sue's said something. 

[chopin-liszt]

 

That would quite probably fit in with the Italian-made suggestion, wouldn't it?
I did study the bottles in the airport as well as I could through the packaging - it was glass after all, wasn't it? - got me the unwanted attention of the sales person though, who couldn't work out what I was doing. :spls:

[Littleblackhen]

Lol, just as well I didn't advertise it for sale as Bimini then

I wonder if there are examples of them anywhere on the web?

The stopper is cork, which I wouldn't have expected from a modern decanter, I would have thought it would be plastic nowadays?  Maybe it is part of the upmarket image if they are expensive spirits.  Could be worse, it could have been cheap spirits

[krsilber]

"Note there is no external seam."

I'm thinking the seam is just under the edge of the foot of the grape part, and that the edges of the large bubble were folded under there and attached (see bad drawing, blame it on my mouse).  It's very hard to see from the photos, though.  The bottom would have had to be open to allow air to escape from the grapes as it was cooling.

If the grapes were put in through the top that would mean a lot of glass to close in to make such a long, narrow neck.

[Littleblackhen]

I think you have got it Kristi, that looks as though it would work.  There is a thicker bit of glass around the edge of the base, so I would guess that is where they were joined.

This has been quite fun and educational too

[Anne]

Sorry not to have looked at this closer before, but the grapes inside are very reminiscent of a small decanter my parents brought back from a trip to Croatia a few years back. It was full of a very nice banana liqueur, had a small cork stopper and had a tag attached which said

Hand-made by Elvis Drandic, Bale-Valle, Istra, Croatia

[chopin-liszt]

 

I should have said that it was the fact that there is a "hole" at the base of the grapes which was ringing bells about the fancy spirit bottles I was looking at. They were quite complex - some even had different colours of glass in the insidey bit. I'm not suggesting it's "tacky", it could be reused to a nice decorative effect.

[Anne]

Forgot to say that the coloured part in my pic is the (unconsumed) contents not the glass!