- A magnum holds the equivalent of two normal wine bottles (1.5 L).
- A jeroboam holds the equivalent of four normal wine bottles (3 L).
- A rehoboam holds the equivalent of six normal wine bottles (4.5 L).
- A methuselah holds the equivalent of eight normal wine bottles (6 L).
- A salmanazar holds the equivalent of twelve normal wine bottles (9 L).
- A balthazar holds the equivalent of sixteen normal wine bottles (12 L).
- A nebuchadnezzar holds the equivalent of twenty normal wine bottles (15 L).
- A melchior holds the equivalent of twenty-four normal wine bottles (18 L)
If anyone would like to send me a melchior of champagne for my birthday next year, that would be cool.
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I for one, did not know...
I, also, did not know these fascinating wine facts. BUT, I did know that the world's largest wine bottle, nicknamed "Maximus," resides in a wine store in the town where I grew up, Tenafly, NJ.
hi richie jay.
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