Sometimes a single bottle just doesn’t befit the occasion!
When you need to celebrate in style a magnum is the minimum.
Wisdom suggests the larger the bottle the slower the wine inside will age.
There’s another interesting factor when it comes to bottle fermented sparkling like Champagne. The fermentation ‘kinetics’ the way the wine ferments in magnum just seems to give the Champagne magnums the edge in quality over single bottles.
Maybe it’s just the party environment!
Here’s a list of different wine bottle sizes.
1.5L Magnum = 2 x 750 ml bottles.
3.0L Double Magnum – Jeroboam = 2 x Magnums or 4 x 750ml bottles.
4.5L Jeroboam (aka Rehoboam) = 6 x 750 ml bottles. (Jeroboam is either 3 or 4.5 L depending on what part of France you’re in)
6.0L Imperial (aka Methuselah) = 8 x 750 ml bottles or 2 x Double Magnums.
9.0L Salmanazar = 12 x 750 ml bottles or a full case of wine!
12.0L Balthazar = 16 x 750 ml bottles or two Imperials.
15.0L Nebuchadnezzar = 20 x 750 ml bottles or the name of the ship in the Matrix.
18.0 L Solomon (aka Melchoir) = 24 x 750 ml bottles.
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Four years straight Bouland has turned stunning, beautiful wines!
Superb expression of bubbles made from Pinot Noir!
Zero dosage wines have nowhere to hide! They simply must stand on their own two feet!
Only 6 Magnums in the country no 750's due to shipping mistake!
Amongst an Ocean of Champagne Rosé this is one of the few that stands out!
There's a purity & intensity about this wine the combined with the juicy acid is so so satisfying!
Deceptively sophisticated, the depth of fruit is beautifully counterpointed with stunning mineral acid & layers of flavour!