A term (also known as a tall bottle) for the bottle shape most commonly used for white wines in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Alsace. The slender bottle with an elongated neck is between 300 and 375 millimetres long. A special shape used in the German Rheingau is known as the Rheingauer Flöte. The common name in Alsace is Flûte (flute), the international name is "Renana" (German: "Rheinische").

Bottle types / bottle shapes: 1 = Club bottle, 2 = Burgundy bottle, 3 = Schlegel bottle, 4 = Bocksbeutel bottle, 5 = sparkling wine bottle(champagne bottle, sparkling wine bottle), 6 = Bordeaux bottle
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