August 12, 2010
How Big are Wine Bottles?
How big are wine bottles?
“Wine is Bottled Poetry” – Robert Louis Stevenson
The capacity of a wine bottle in Liters is followed by the number of standard size bottles contained:
Standard Wine Bottle holds .75 litres of wine. One bottle of wine.
A Magnum Wine Bottle holds 1.5 litres of wine. Two bottles of wine.
A Jeroboam Wine Bottle holds 3 litres of wine. Four bottles of wine.
A Rehoboam Wine Bottle holds 4.5 litres of wine. Six bottles of wine.
A Methuselah Wine Bottle holds 6 litres of wine. Eight bottles of wine.
A Salmanazar Wine Bottle holds 9 litres of wine. Twelve bottles of wine.
A Balthazar Wine Bottle holds 12 litres of wine. Sixteen bottles of wine.
A Nebuchadnezzar Wine Bottle holds 15 litres of wine. Twenty bottles of wine.
“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.”
W.B.Yeats
Michele La Duke said,
August 12, 2010 at 5:42 am
Very interesting. Never thought of the different sizes of wine bottles..Michele