what did brits do to bottles french

This was a question from my teacher. He said brits did something to wine bottles that the french didnt. Anybody know?

put a dimple in it?

That rise in the bottom (if that were said somewhere other than 4chan, that would be weird.)? Screwcaps? Just wild guessing here.

Use plastic corks instead of cork-corks?

Probably because they wanted all the pur corks for their goatse experiments fucking limeys

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correct, they did it on Mythbusters

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Sparkling wine is under high a pressure of 6 bar (90 lbs per in^2) and 16th century bottles with wooden bungs were inadequate to contain this pressure. This did not matter to the French who kept their wine in casks, but the English liked their wine in bottles, and any accidental second fermentation normally caused the bottle to fail. The problem facing the English wine coopers was how to control the process.

In 1615 Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, concerned by the diversion of wood to charcoal production rather than ship-building, persuaded King James I to issue a Royal Proclamation banning the use of wood-fired furnaces, thereby forcing the use of coal. The much higher temperatures achieved in coal-fired furnaces produced a stronger glass and this, coupled with the re-discovery of cork for making stoppers, provided the English with a wine bottle capable of withstanding the gas pressures produced by making wine sparkle.