A large bottle for a big celebration

The amount of wine inside a bottle is usually 0.75 liters. This can be considered a unit of measurement. Multiples and fractions have specific, and often rather curious, names. By convention, the 0.75-liter bottle is called a Champagne bottle. Let’s discover the other formats together!

Magnum, Jeroboam, and then what? Here are the names of the bottles:
In increasing order we have: the half bottle, the bottle, the liter, the Magnum (2 bottles), the Jeroboam (4 bottles), the Rehoboam (6 bottles), the Methuselah (8 bottles), the Salmanazar (12 bottles), the Balthazar (16 bottles), the Nebuchadnezzar (20 bottles), the Solomon (24 bottles), the Primat (36 bottles), and finally the Melchizedek (40 bottles).

It's fascinating that the wine world chose the names of kings from ancient Middle Eastern civilizations to represent large formats. This choice is attributed to 19th-century Champagne merchants, aiming to associate an important moment with a wine and a bottle bearing a similarly significant name.

How can you resist the temptation to toast the new year with a giant bottle of wine? A big bottle for a big toast!