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Wine Bottle Sizes, FYI... I love a Jeroboam...

September 26, 2005

In case you wondered, or knew and forgot, or whatever... I only want to drink Jeroboams or Methuselahs, myself. That's a real bottle. I've seen em with decent red wine as cheap as $75.

*Bottle -- 750ml -- Standard bottle size, some refer to it as a 'fifth'

*Magnum -- 1.5 Liters -- Two standard bottles in one

*Double Magnum -- 3.0 Liters -- Equivalent of 4 standard bottles


*Jeroboam -- 4.5 - 5 Liters -- Two sizes: or Rheoboam for sparkling wine Jeroboam (3.0 Liters) is equal to 4 standard bottles; Still wine Jeroboam (4.5) equivalent to 6 standard bottles. You can, sometimes, find a 5.0 liter Jeroboam

*Imperial -- 6.0 Liters -- 8 standard bottles; traditionally bottled in a Bordeaux-shaped bottle; or, Methuselah for Champagne

*Methuselah -- 6.0 Liters -- Used for sparkling wine in Burgundy-shaped bottle; same size as the Imperial

*Salmanazar -- 9.0 Liters -- 12 standard bottles, 1 case

*Balthazar -- 12.0 Liters -- 15 bottles of wine; usually for sparkling wines

*Nebuchadnezzar -- 15.0 Liters -- 20 standard bottles of wine, used mostly for sparkling wine

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