In case you don't already know, I have access to a bottle dumpster used by a few different bars and I make regular raids on it when I'm in need of something. Lately I have found myself in need of enough beer and wine bottles to handle something like 50 or 60 gallons of various fermented things like cider and wine so I have been hitting the dumpster hard for the past few months.
As I salvage beer bottles I find I have a lot of trouble passing up anything with a cork but my absolute favorite bottles are a brand called "Monkey Shoulder" I saw this bottle and fell in love with it, mostly because of this On the shoulder of the bottle are 3 brass monkeys. As soon as I saw one I knew I needed more and instantly knew I had to put the S3 monkeys on it. Sadly these are very rare finds in my bottle dumpster but I have managed to find a few of them two of which I sent to MCH with my 2018 & 2019 apple brandy. The labels I put on them look like this I have to say I like these bottles so much that I will and have crawled across broken glass to get one
Of course because I'm both a cheap bastard and a natural scrounger those aren't the only bottles I use. I can't resist Woodford Reserve bottle even though it's close to impossible to remove the painted on wording. They have nice corks, store well and the bottles I find are always one liter so I always grab them when I find them.
I really have a thing for unique shaped bottles. One of the only bottles I have ever bought were a couple cases of these Which have a really nice oval shape But use a larger than standard cork which until recently I've only been able to find from Widgetco and they are quite expensive. However recently I found a Woodinville Whiskey company cork fits them perfectly. WW uses a rectangular bottle that I would really like if it didn't have embossed lettering, but it does so when I find one of those I just take the corks to fit my oval bottles.