Wednesday, September 06, 2006

very large wine bottles

There are names for them. Except for 'magnum,' they are the names of biblical people, mostly kings. You probably knew this already, but I didn't:
  • 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.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I for one, did not know...

Richie Jay said...

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.

Anonymous said...

hi richie jay.