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Funny Names for Big Bottles of Vino

by Max Hartshorne on September 30, 2006


We visited many wineries and wine shops today in Austria, and I came across a huge bottle in one of them. Not sure what to call it, I found out this:

Standard Wine Bottle Sizes:

These are traditional standard bottle sizes for Champagne.

Split
1/4 bottle 18.7 cl

Half
1/2 bottle
37.5 cl

Bottle
1 bottle
750 ml

Magnum
2 bottles
1.5 l

Jeroboam
4 bottles
3 l

Methuselah
8 bottles
6 l

Salmanazar
12 bottles
9 l

Balthazar
16 bottles
12 l

Nabuchadnezzar
20 bottles
15 l

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