Sunday, October 7, 2007

Wine Bottle Sizes & Names

I always find the names that they gave wine bottles back whenever they decided they needed names, very interesting. I can never remember any name except Jeroboam & Nebuchadnezzar and then I only know that a Jeroboam is 6 bottles and the Nebuchadnezzar is bigger. I recently came across an article about the subject, so for my own information I'm going to keep in my "musings".

Spilt or Piccolo....................... 187 ml
Half-Bottle.............................. 375 ml
Standard Bottle...................... 750 ml
Magnum .................................1.5 L equal to....2 bottles
Double Magnum ....................3 L .....................4 bottles
Jeroboam................................ 5 L..................... 6 bottles
Rehoboam..................... 4.5 / 6 L.............. 6 to 8 bottles
Imperial or Methuselah........ 6 L..................... 8 bottles
Salmanazar .............................9 L.................. 16 bottles
Nebuchadnezzar................... 15 L................... 20 bottles
Melchior .................................18 L................... 24 bottles
Solomon................................. 20 L................... 26 bottles
Sovereign.............................. 25 L.................... 33 bottles
Primat................................... 27 L.................... 36 bottles
Melchizedek......................... 30 L................... 40 bottles

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