If you are wondering why wine bottles have dimples in the bottom, we got the answer!

There is no clear consensus as to why the dimple is there, but there are plenty of fascinating theories.

Here you are the ones most plausible and most interesting.

- The dimple makes it easier to hold a wine bottle. If you grab a wine bottle from the bottom, it’s no surprise that the dimple is present, acting as a spot to place your thumb while the rest of your fingers grab the base of the bottle.

- The dimple allows the bottle to stand upright. Glassblowers used to create dimples to push the seam of a bottle up, allowing the bottle to stand upright while preventing glass at the bottom of the bottle from sticking out and cutting people.

- Dimples catch sediments. Some posit that the angle of a punt lets sediment collect in a tight area near the base, stopping the sediment from blending back into the wine as it’s being poured.

Last, but not least

- Dimples make the bottle more resistant to high pressure. And when they’re more resistant to high pressure, they can better hold sparkling wines.

Also, in the case of Champagnes, there is another reason for the dimples: for the sabrage "technique", that is the technique to open a bottle using a sword, the wine need t be hold from the very bottom.

A legend says that the zar Alessandro II of Russia, wanted the bottles of French Champagne Louis Rœderer “Cristal”, that was created for him in 1867, with a flat bottom and transparent.

The reason? He was afraid that in the bottom dimple of the bottle, someone could hide a bomb to kill him.