First of all, thanks to all posters for their answers about plastic bottles.
Mike's response about Beaujolais nouveau was stunning!

About Crete: I do not know if it is still true today, but about ten years
ago, you could buy what the locals called RAKI. Now this is not an
anise-seed-based drink like its namesake in Turkey, but the equivalent to
marc or grappa. Production was not entirely legal, but widespread and
tolerated, and you could get the stuff in tavernas and on local markets,
where in was sold in any kind of re-used whisky or coke bottles (plastic and
glass).

Some rakis I tasted in restaurants over there where quite palatable, so I
decided to take a bottle home.

Believe you me: Never has there been a beverage that I spat out so fast!
Utterly disgusting stuff... Before pouring it down the drain, I thought I
might decimate the fish population in the local river, so I poured the raki
in the garden. Know what: the next morning, the grass hat turned brown and
remained brown for the next few weeks...

All the best in wine and life,

Yves


"Bi!!" > wrote in message
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On Aug 16, 2:51 pm, dickr2 > wrote:
> Plastic bottles seem to be OK for any beverage that you plan
> to drink in the near future, but as others have pointed out,
> it depends on what kind of plastic is used in the bottles.
> We had a few bottles of club soda in the pantry, 2 plastic,
> 1 glass. Since we don't use club soda very often, the bottles
> had been in the pantry for some time. Upon opening, the club
> soda in plastic was flat, whereas the contents of the glass bottle
> retained its fiz. Maybe a wine like Beaujoulais nouveau could
> be packaged in plastic bottles.
> :-)
> Dick

Many years ago while visiting Crete I bought wine from a small bistro
out of a large cask and put the wine into an empty 1 litre plastic
Coke bottle. The wine cost about one US dollar per litre. The
plastic bottle didn't hurt the wine a bit.