Bigger wine bottles require specialised racking with wider spacing for safer storage, and serve to give a home a distinguished look. Every bottle has a name, commonly biblically inspired. The most unique Champagne bottle size, however, earned the eponymous nickname, The Winston Churchill, after the Wartime Prime Minister.
It held precisely 20 ounces around ml , the amount of Champagne the famous statesman considered perfect in the morning. Half Bottle is also called Demi or Split and it is, unsurprisingly, half a bottle of wine, holding ml. A Standard bottle holds ml and remains the most popular size, while a Magnum is a 1. A Jeroboam, or a Double Magnum, holds 3 litres of wine four bottles , where a Bordeaux Jeroboam holds 5 litres. A Rehoboam holds 4. A Balthazar bottle can hold up to 12 litres 16 bottles while a Nebuchadnezzar holds 15 litres 20 bottles and weighs around a massive Even more impressive, a Melchior can hold 18 litres 24 bottles with the Solomon bottles holding 20 litres 26 bottles.
Towards the end of the wine bottle scale is the Sovereign bottle, which can hold a staggering 25 litres The name of this format can refer to either an Imperial gallon or the oldest man in the Bible. Most just consider it a party in a bottle. Named after an Assyrian king , this oversized format houses a full case of wine in a single bottle.
Balthazar , one of the Three Wise Men, would obviously have been smart enough to present a gift of 16 bottles of wine in one vessel.
Named for the longest-ruling king of Babylon , the Nebuchadnezzar would also be the bottle of choice for Neo and Morpheus. Holding 24 standard bottles or two cases of wine and tipping the scales at almost pounds, you might need some help carrying this down to the cellar. Named for the oldest of the biblical Magi. Named after the son of King David, rumor has it that Solomon would only enjoy his Cabernet out of this bottle behemoth.
Similar to the Piccolo, this bottle is only used for champagne. The Chopine is sized to match a traditional unit of wine volume in France, and is exactly one third of the capacity of a standard bottle. This bottle is used for Bordeaux wines. More widely used than its smaller counterparts, the Demi can contain wines from Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy.
Although it is not as imaginatively named as the others, there is no mistaking the standard bottle which is the most widely used by a very long distance among winemakers worldwide. Also named literally, the Liter bottle of wine may not be common to French, Italian or US producers, however it is popular with Austrian wine producers, so if you spot a Liter bottle, then it is likely to have Austrian origins. The Magnum bottle holds certain significance in the wine world, as many connoisseurs consider the Magnum to be the largest bottle suitable for high-quality Champagne.
This fine sparkling wine is most often fermented in Magnum sized bottles or smaller, therefore if Champagne is sold in a higher volume than 1. As well as Champagne, the Magnum bottle is also used for wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux. The Marie Jeanne is used for wines from Bordeaux and is also relatively common for Port wine , where it may be called Tregnum or Tappit Hen. The Marie Jeanne bottle is exactly 3 times the size of a standard 0. At around three liters is the Jeroboam, and although the size of a Jeroboam-named bottle may vary in different regions of France, it always sits between 3 and 4.
Larger versions are more common in Bordeaux. The same size as a large Jeroboam, the Rehoboam is the name given to a 4. Almost exclusively found in France, the McKenzie bottle is 6. With a name like Imperial, it is hard not to be impressed with the size of this wine bottle, but this is still nowhere near the top end of our scale.
At 8 times the size of a standard bottle, this variant holds 1 Imperial gallon of wine. Named after the biblical Assyrian King, this royally large bottle holds a whopping 9 liters of wine, and its use varies, including Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy wines.
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