Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bottling adj.

[bottler n.1 (1)]

(Aus.) excellent, first-class; usu. in approving/congratulatory phr. your blood’s worth bottling.

[Aus]Duke Tritton’s Letter n.p.: No doubts about it, my Mary is a bottling Babbling Brook.
[Aus]W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 11: blood’s worth bottling — A phrase expressive of admiration. [Ibid.] 13: bottling — A phrase expressive of admiration.
[UK](con. WWI) E. Lynch Somme Mud 157: An officer excitedly tells me, ‘Your blood’s worth bottling, lad.’.
[Aus](con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: blood’s worth bottling. A phrase expressive of admiration.
[Ire]B. Behan Quare Fellow (1960) Act I: Ah, thanks, butty, your blood’s worth bottling.
[Aus]‘Nino Culotta’ They’re a Weird Mob (1958) 5: I say: ‘Thanks mate. Yer blood’s worth bottling’.
[Aus]S. Gore Holy Smoke 10: Only, when David shows up with the scran, does Eilab say ‘Good on yer, mate – yer blood’s worth bottling’.
[Aus]G. Seal Lingo 88: one’s blood can be worth bottling or, less happily, be on the walls.
[Aus]Ozwords Apr. 2: It is also in First World War Australian military contexts that many Australian idioms are first recorded: his blood’s worth bottling, give it a burl, hop in for one’s chop, come a gutser, rough as bags.
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 25: blood’s worth bottling Hearty appreciation of a splendid fellow ANZ mid C20.
[Aus]P. Papathanasiou Stoning 316: ‘Thanks for not letting me cark it. Yer blood’s worth bottling’.