Abstract: The invention provides a drip-retaining collar for catching and retaining drips from a bottle, the collar being configured to sit about a neck or shoulder of the bottle and having a radially inwardly facing edge for contacting the neck or shoulder so as to halt the flow of drips down the neck or shoulder; wherein the collar is integrally moulded from a plastics material and has an annular drip-collecting trough disposed radially outwardly of the said radially inwardly facing edge, and wherein the annular trough is partitioned into compartments, each compartment being of such a size and configuration that it can retain drip liquid collected therein when the collar is inverted.