This weekend I saw a pear that had been grown in a bottle. It was a Poire William Brandy (pear brandy) carafe. The pear gets “bottled” when it is small and grows for a few months before harvest. The brandy smells yummy, but the taste is, as you may expect, alcohol intense. We didn’t chill it, as I have now read is recommended, so maybe the flavor wasn’t as pronounced as it could have been.