The small, walled compound looked neglected, with patches of overgrown grass strewn with old bottles and plastic bags.
With coveted wines like premier cru Bordeaux fetching thousands of dollars per bottle, the incentive exists to make an easy buck by pouring new wine into old bottles.
The old McIlhenny Plantation trash heap is a treasure trove of old TABASCO bottles.
The old soda bottles, lottery tickets and newspaper clippings had them sourly perplexed.
Used tires, old plastic bottles, denim and nylon carpet are all redirected from landfills and reused in select GM vehicles.
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Article after article puts old wine in new bottles, in many cases this does more to confuse than clarify.
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Old shoes and empty bottles are strewn across the rotting floors.
Laura Bix, an associate professor of packaging at Michigan State University, published a small study in 2012 in online journal PLOS One that found young and old people look at pill bottles differently.
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People upset that other people are taking credit for their old wine by putting it into new bottles.
Traffic cones, road signs, bottles, shoes and an old black and white car registration plate were among the rubbish found in a clean-up of Windermere in the Lake District.
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Tall, ponytailed, absurdly young, pushing a stroller past stripped cars and broken beer bottles and barfed-upon old snow, she might have been carrying all the hours of her day in the string bags that hung from her stroller.
Although Mr. Lombardo's wine list features mostly current vintages, I've found that many lists feature half-bottles that are a little too old.
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As I settled into the car, a battered Toyota Solara, Lanier apologized for the condition of the front seat, the footwell of which was cluttered with old magazines, half-empty plastic water bottles, and a squashed box of tissues.
Here, bottles of the 135-year-old hot sauce are the equivalent of ancient coins.
My point is what would say a 2 or 3 year old think if they came across one of these bottles?
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The best distillers of their day, such as Pernod Fils and Edouard Pernod, were so concerned with knockoffs they used intricate wax seals and foils on their bottles, which, now 100 years old, are nearly impossible to fake, says David Nathan-Maister, a London rare-spirits dealer who specializes in absinthe.
TEMPLE-RASTON: Flipping through the New York Times classifieds, Bruno came across an auction announcement that said that everything at 2001 Odyssey's old location, from lights to bar glasses, to unused bottles of booze, was all on the block.
The brawl, during which people punched, kicked and threw bottles, was by "prior arrangement", the Old Bailey heard.
On the bottom was all slimy mud, broken bottles and bits of glass and bricks and nails and old stuff, everything.
In a shed at the back of the old brewery, there is a cage pallet of their signature 75cl bottles, packed with a new beer, Equilibrista (Italian for tight-rope walker).
Kyle Abel, a 24-year-old who drives a boat for the Coast Guard, delivered water bottles to those who opted to stay in their homes, despite the water creeping up their front porches.
California has also managed to import some of the grape's Old World confusion factor, since the state's wineries tend to label bottles "Pinot Grigio" or "Pinot Gris" based on whim rather than wine style.
When Ms. Nassauer saw a twisted old rain gutter, she proposed running it along a dining-room wall to hold wine bottles.
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We're all for technology being used to free wage-slaves from the tedium of their jobs, but until they can invent a robotic bartender that flips bottles and woos patrons a la Tom Cruise in Cocktail, we'll stick with regular old human suds slingers who regale us with their false tales of bravado and sports heroics.
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While a handful of different single-batch, single-varietal Karlsson's vodkas were released in Sweden, the 2008 Old Swedish Red potato bottling will be the first to go international, with 1, 542 of 1, 980 bottles designated for the States.
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