Apparatus for sorting bottles of two or more types. The apparatus comprises a feeding track for unsorted bottles and a number of discharge tracks for the different bottle types and a transporting mechanism in the form of a star wheel. The star wheel is provided with successive bottle pockets each arranged to receive a bottle from the feeding track. Each pocket is provided with a suction cup connected to a vacuum system and corresponding to the contour of one type of bottle for holding such bottle for detachment at a desired later discharge track but leaving the other type of bottle free to travel to a first discharge track.