Blended Wine - A Creative wine JOURNEY
 

wine bottles - big and small

 

Ever wonder what size wine bottle someone is referring to when they say some strange word that you have never heard before?  Consider the mystery solved with the list below.  The standard wine bottle is 740 mL (milliliters).  And, just in case you were not sure, a Liter is 1,000 milliliters.

 

Size

 Equivilent

# Bottles

  

Volume
Bottle 1 750 mL
Half 1/2 375 mL
Magnum 2 1.5 L
Jeroboam 4 3 L
Methuselah 8 6 L
Salamanzar 12 9 L
Balthazar 16 12 L
Nebuchadnezzar 20 15 L

 

Now you’re an expert.  See if you can identify any of these bottles the next time you go to your favorite wine store.  Should be fun to see if you can “size them up” correctly.