Talk to a local winery. I have found that most small winery's do not keep the bottles they go through in their tasting room.
A local winery here is hooking me up with about 2+ cases a week. She was very happy to know the bottles would get reused for wine/mead as opposed to recycled.
Tell every wine drinker you know to start saving bottles for you! Thats what I did, and the people who gave me more than 3 or 4 bottles I exchanged them with a full bottle of my wine! The rest I made sure they had a chance to taste it at a party or when they came over or something. Now I have all kinds of people dropping bottles off at the house, I can't keep up with making the wine!
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