"wine jar" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a large container used for storing and aging wine. For example, "The vintner checked the aging wine jars to make sure the fermentation process was going smoothly."
I remember uncovering the handle of a big piece of amphora – a Roman wine jar.
Mrs. Kim nodded, opening a wood box to display the 17th-century wine jar inside.
The earliest is a simple, tulip-shaped wine jar made in the sixth millennium B.C. in Transcaucasian Georgia, where viticulture was born.
Marcus is the kind of man who notices a pot-bound rose bush growing out of an old wine jar outside his military quarters.
Another pairs a gold-striped ewer modeled after an ancient Greek wine jar and made at Derby (1780-3) with one made at Jingdezhen in the same neo-classical style, painted with scenes of the Derbyshire countryside (c.1785).
In The Supper at Emmaus he combined figures, heads, hands, plates, and a wine jar from various early genuine Vermeers; it was hailed as a masterpiece and the earliest known Vermeer.
(Rome fell because the wine jars were made of lead — a fun explanation, though somehow unsatisfying).
In the tomb of Tutankhamen most of the pottery vessels were simple wine jars in the form of amphorae.
In Cyprus, they learned that a sponge diver had found an intriguing pile of wine jars on the sea bottom.
In the Song period, vases, wine jars, and pillows (which are more comfortable than they appear) were the most usual products.
The main cargo of more than 400 wine jars, mostly made in Rhodes, indicated the ship had stopped at that island.
