Drip stopper and packaging therefor

A drip stopper for preventing the undesired falling of drops during pouring from an opened bottle into a drinking vessel, the drip stopper comprising:

• the drip stopper is insertable into a neck of the opened bottle, and the drip stopper includes
• a substantially cylindrical wall having an axial length, the wall defines an insertion part which in an inserted state extends into the bottle neck, a pouring-out part which in the inserted state protrudes above an upper edge of the bottle neck,
• a plurality of rectangular, radially outwardly oriented position elements between the insertion part and the pouring-out part and comprising an axially parallel nook-shaped recess which extends over the entire axial length of the wall.