Wine, Vodka and Gin in a Blue Bottle: What You Are Actually Looking For
Every month, thousands of people type some version of “wine in a blue bottle”, “vodka in a blue bottle” or “gin in a blue bottle” into Google. They are not being vague. They are describing the one thing they actually remember — they saw the bottle at a kiddush, or at somebody's bar, and the colour stuck when the name did not.
So here are the answers, shelf by shelf. Three different bottles, three different aisles, and all three of them are genuinely blue.
Wine in a blue bottle: Bartenura Moscato
This is the one almost everybody means. Bartenura Moscato is $14.49 for the 750ml, and the cobalt bottle is so well known that the wine is often just called “the blue bottle.” It is the best-known kosher wine in the world and it earned that honestly.
What is inside: a gently fizzing Moscato from Provincia di Pavia in northern Italy, at only five percent alcohol. Peach, orange blossom and honeysuckle on the nose, sweet and light across the palate with a soft prickle of bubbles, and a clean grapey finish. It is the bottle that gets opened when nobody at the table wants to think about wine.
One piece of advice that matters more than anything else: serve it properly cold. Warm Moscato tastes like syrup. Cold, it tastes like peaches.
If you came here searching for “blue bottle white wine” — yes, same bottle. Moscato is a white wine, and we wrote about why that confuses people in is Moscato white or red. If what you want to know is how sweet it really is, that is is Moscato sweet.
The blue bottle comes in more than one size, which is worth knowing before you buy a case of the wrong one:
| Format | Price | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| 750ml bottle | $14.49 | The standard Shabbos table |
| 375ml half bottle | $9.99 | Two glasses, no leftovers |
| Cans, 4 pack | $18.99 | Picnics, no corkscrew |
| Lychee cans, 4 pack | $16.99 | The fruitier version |
There is a whole Bartenura range behind the famous one, and we walk through all of it in the Bartenura brand guide.
Vodka in a blue bottle: Deep Blue
This is the search that sends the most people looking and finds them the least, so let us be specific. The vodka in the deep cobalt bottle — broad-shouldered, with the floral motif on the label — is Deep Blue Vodka, and it is $27.99 for the 1.75L handle.
It is an ice-filtered grain vodka from Ukraine, and our listing records it as OU certified. Soft grain with a faint floral lift, light and round with a touch of cracked grain sweetness, and a short tidy finish with no harshness. It is the workhorse handle — vodka-cranberry, Moscow mules, Bloody Marys on a Sunday, or straight out of the freezer for a l'chaim.
There is also Deep Blue Limited at $36.99 for the same 1.75L size, if you want the step up.
If what you are really asking is what separates one clear vodka from another, what vodka is made from is the honest answer, and there are plenty more in the kosher vodka aisle.
Gin in a blue bottle: Bombay Sapphire
The flat-sided sapphire bottle with the portrait on the front is Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin, $32.99 for the 750ml. The blue glass is so recognisable that it has become shorthand for a modern gin and tonic.
It is distilled at Laverstoke Mill in Hampshire, England, using vapour infusion — the spirit is steamed through ten botanicals rather than boiled with them, which is why it reads lighter and more floral than a heavy juniper gin. Juniper, coriander, citrus peel and a whisper of orris; crisp and lifted, clean and dry.
Over ice with tonic and a lime wedge is the whole point of this bottle. If you want to know what the words on the label actually mean, read what is London Dry gin, and gin botanicals covers the rest of what goes into the still. The full shelf is in kosher gin.
All three, side by side
| You searched for | You want | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wine / moscato in a blue bottle | Bartenura Moscato 750ml | $14.49 |
| Vodka in a blue bottle | Deep Blue Vodka 1.75L | $27.99 |
| Gin in a blue bottle | Bombay Sapphire 750ml | $32.99 |
Why does everybody search by colour?
Because colour is what survives. Brand names are easy to forget and hard to spell — we see people searching for every possible mangling of a label — but a cobalt bottle on a white tablecloth is a thing you remember a week later. A blue bottle is a genuinely useful description, and the trade mostly refuses to talk that way.
If it helps, the same thing happens in the other direction. The green bottle people ask about in the gin aisle is almost always Tanqueray, and the one described as a blue-and-white whale is Gray Whale Gin.
A word on certification
Blue glass tells you nothing about a hechsher, so check the listing rather than the bottle. Bartenura and Deep Blue are both certified, and our is it kosher guide runs the rule through every shelf in the shop — grapes and anything flavoured need certification, plain distilled spirits are a simpler picture. As always, the final word belongs to your rov, not a wine store.
And whichever blue bottle you were looking for, we will ship it to you anywhere in the country.
