It is generally not illegal to buy and sell empty bottles, but if the wine produced by reselling empty bottles does not meet the standards prescribed by law, the act of reselling empty bottles may be suspected of violating the law or even committing crimes. I suggest you handle it with caution.
According to the provisions of Article 140 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the crime of producing and selling fake and inferior products refers to the behavior that producers and sellers adulterate products, pass the fake as the real, pass the inferior as the good, or pass the unqualified products as qualified products, and the sales amount is more than 50,000 yuan. The criminal act of the crime of producing and selling fake and inferior products is the act of producing and selling. According to the provisions of Article 144 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), the production and sale of toxic and harmful food refers to the behavior of producers and sellers who deliberately adulterate the food they produce and sell with toxic and harmful non-food raw materials, or sell the food they know is adulterated with toxic and harmful non-food raw materials.