I’d go with peterfile. Unless the wine bottles originally contained sparkling wine.
besides, beer is best kept in brown bottles to prevent it getting “lightstruck”, which can seriously affect the taste. Wine bottles are generally green or uncoloured.
If you want to use big bottles, I don’t know if cider still comes in screw cap brown bottles. If you can get PET bottles in brown (e.g. dandelion & burdock), they’d be more suitable.
They’re designed to be carbonated and, being quite soft plastic, you can tell when they are carbonated as they’ll be firm to the touch.
I use at least one Coopers brown PET beer bottle in every batch of beer that I brew so I can tell when they’re carbonated & ready to move somewhere cooler for conditioning
