Bocksbeutel
[BAWKS-boy-tuhl]
A squat, flagon-shaped, green or amber bottle used for quality wine (QbA or QmP) from Germany’s FRANKEN region. Badisches Frankenland, a wine produced in the northern part of German’s BADEN region, also uses a bocksbeutel. Bock is German for “goat,” and it’s said that the bottle is patterned after the scrotum of that animal. Others feel that the name is taken from a bag used to carry religious books called a Bockesbeutel in Low German.
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