Bottles

Question 1

What is the traditional bottle for Moscato di Scanzo DOCG wines and what volume does it hold?

Answer 1

Futura

500mL

Question 2

Where is a Futura bottle used and what volumed does it hold?

Answer 2

Moscato di Scanzo DOCG

500mL

Question 3

What is the volume of a Piccolo or Split? What wine is this most used for?

Answer 3

187.5mL

Champagne

Question 4

What is the name of a bottle that holds 187.5mL?

Answer 4

Piccolo

Question 5

What is the name of a bottle that holds 375mL?

Answer 5

Demi or Half

Question 6

What is the name of a bottle that holds 750mL?

Answer 6

Standard

Question 7

What is the name of a bottle that holds 1.5L? How many standard bottles?

Answer 7

Magnum

=2 standard bottles

Question 8

What is the name of a bottle that holds 3L? How many standard bottles?

Answer 8

Double Magnum/Jeroboam (Burgundy and Champagne)

=4 standard bottles

Question 9

What is the name of a bottle that holds 4.5L of still wine? how many standard bottles?

Answer 9

Jeroboam (Bordeaux)

=6 standard bottles

Question 10

What is the name of a bottle that holds 6L? How many standard bottles?

Answer 10

Imperial/Methuselah

=8 standard bottles

Question 11

What is the name of a bottle that holds 9L? How many standard bottles is this equal to?

Answer 11

Salamanzar

=12 standard bottles

Question 12

What is the name of a bottle that holds 12L?

Answer 12

Balthazar

=16 standard bottles

Question 13

What is the name of a bottle that holds 15L? How many standard bottles is this equal to?

Answer 13

Nebuchadnezzar

=20 standard bottles

Question 14

How many L are commonly contained within a box of wine?

Answer 14

3L

Question 15

What is the name of a bottle that holds 4.5 L of Champagne? How many standard bottles is this equal to?

Answer 15

Rehoboam

=6 standard bottles

Question 16

How many L of wine does a Jeroboam of Bordeaux hold? Jeroboam of Burgundy and Champagne?

Answer 16

4.5L for Bordeaux prior to 1978, 5L today

3L in Champagne and Burgundy

Question 17

What is the volume of a Topette and what is it most commonly used for?

Answer 17

93.5mL (1/8 bottle)

Question 18

What is the name for the following volume bottles?

93.5mL (1/8bottle)
187mL (1/4 bottle)
375mL (1/2 bottle)

Answer 18

93.5mL (1/8bottle): Topette

187mL (1/4 bottle):
Piccolo

375mL (1/2 bottle):
Demi, Half bottle, or Split

Question 19

What is the name of the bottle that holds 20L? How many standard bottles does this hold?

Answer 19

Solomon

=26 standard bottles

Question 20

What is the name of the bottle that holds 25 L? How many standard bottles does this hold?

Answer 20

Sovereign

=33.3 bottles

Question 21

What is the name for a bottle that holds 27L? How many standard bottles can this hold?

Answer 21

Primat or Goliath

=36 bottles

Question 22

What is the name of the bottle that holds 30L? How many standard bottles is this equal to?

Answer 22

Melchizedek

=30L

Question 23

Who created the Maximus bottle? For what wine? How many L can it hold? Standard bottles?

Answer 23

Beringer for 2001 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

130L

=184 bottles

Question 24

What is the difference between an Imperial and a Methuselah?

Answer 24

Imperial is shaped like a standard BDX bottle and are used for red or white wine.

Methuselah is usually reserved fro Champagne or Sparkling wine and comes in a sloped shoulder wine similar to Burgundy bottles.

Question 25

What is the volume of a Cylinder bottle? What is it most commonly used for?

Answer 25

100mL Used for single, test tube shaped bottles of 3.3oz for individual servings of Sauternes and for some bottles of Eszencia in Tokaj

Question 26

What is the volume of a Chopine? How many bottles is this equivalent to?

Answer 26

250mL or 1/3 bottle

Question 27

What is the volume of a Clavelin half? What is it used for?

Answer 27

310mL Vin Jaune

Question 28

What is the volume of a Tenth bottle?

Answer 28

378mL

Question 29

What is the volume of a Jennie? Where is it most commonly used?

Answer 29

500mL Tokaji, Sauternes, and Jerez

Question 30

What is the volume of a Clavelin and where is it used?

Answer 30

620mL Jura for Vin Jaune

Question 31

What is the volume of a Tappit Hen? Where is it used? What are its other two names?

Answer 31

2.25L (3 times the volume of a standard bottle) Used in Portugal for Port Also called Marie Jeanne and Tregnum

Question 32

What two famous Bordeaux Châteaux have different shaped bottles than the standard BDX bottle?

Answer 32

Château Haut Brion and Château Pavie

Question 33

Which California producer uses a different shaped bottle and size for each vintage?

Answer 33

Sine Qua Non

Question 34

What is the name of the traditional straw wrapped bottle used in Chianti?

Answer 34

Fiasco

Question 35

What are two names for the traditional bottle used in Côtes de Provence?

Answer 35

Skittle and Corset

Question 36

What is the traditional bottle used in Franken? What is this bottle called in Portugal where it is used for some rosés?

Answer 36

Bocksbeutel Cantil

Question 37

What is the traditional bottle used for Vin Jaune? What volume does it hold?

Answer 37

Clavelin 62cl or 620mL

Question 38

What volume does a bottle of Winston Churchill contain? Who makes it?

Answer 38

20 oz Pol Roger

Question 39

Who invented the BDX bottle? From what Château?

Answer 39

Pierre Mitchell from Château du Terte in Margaux