Bottles, Barrels, and Glasses

Question 1

What is the traditional bottle used in Alsace?

Answer 1

Flûte d’Alsace / Vin du Rhin

Question 2

What is the traditional bottle for Vin Jaune and what is its volume?

Answer 2

Clavelin

620mL

Question 3

What is the volume of a barrique bordelaise?

Answer 3

225L

Question 4

What is the volume of a Bordelais tonneau?

Answer 4

900L or 4 times the volume of a barrique

also 100 cases of wine

Question 5

What is the volume of a Burgundian pièce?

Answer 5

228L

Question 6

What is the traditional barrel in Chablis called and what is its volume?

Answer 6

Feuillette

132L

Question 7

What is the volume of a feuillette in the Cote d’Or?

Answer 7

114L

Question 8

What is a quartaut used for and what is its volume?

Answer 8

Used for topping up or perhaps the small produce of a Grand Cru in Burgundy

57L

Question 9

What is the volume of a standard Cognac barrel today?

Answer 9

350L

Question 10

What is the volume of a standard Champagne barrel today?

Answer 10

205L though many bring in barrels from Burgundy

Question 11

What is the volume of a demi-muid and where is it most often found?

Answer 11

600L

Southern Rhone; CDP

Question 12

What is the traditional barrel used in the Mosel and what is its volume?

Answer 12

Fuder

1,000L

Question 13

What is the volume of a Stück, Halbstück, and Dopplestuck?

Answer 13

Stück = 1200L
Halbstück = 600L
Dopplestück = 2400L

Question 14

What is the volume of a bota chica? Where is this used and for what purpose?

Answer 14

500L

Used for shipping in Jerez

Question 15

What is the volume of an American Butt in Jerez?

Answer 15

between 600-650L

Question 16

What is the size of a pipe for Madeira? Marsala?

Answer 16

Madeira = 418L
Marsala = 423L

Question 17

What is the size of a pipe of Port for shipping? What is the size of a pipe for maturation in Vila Nova de Gaia?

Answer 17

Shipping Pipe = 534.24L

Maturation Pipe = 580-630L but usually around 620L

Question 18

What is the size of a Pipe in the Douro Valley for recording the yield of a vineyard?

Answer 18

550L

Question 19

What is the volume of a carato and where is this used?

Answer 19

synonym for Barrique but 225L in volume

Used in Italy

Question 20

What is the traditional barrel for Vin Santo production in Italy and what is it’s volume?

Answer 20

Caratelli

Between 50-225L

Question 21

What is the most common wood used for the production of Caratelli barrels?

Answer 21

Chestnut is the most common though acacia, cherry, and juniper are not unknown.

Question 22

What are tini, what are they used for, and where?

Answer 22

Large conical wooden vats used for fermentation in Italy.

Question 23

What is the volume of a tonneau outside of Bordeaux?

Answer 23

Around 500L but between 300-700L

Question 24

What is the name of the traditional production barrel of Tokaji and what is its volume?

Answer 24

Gönci = 136L

Question 25

What is the volume of a an American Hogshead barrel and what wine producing country is it most commonly associated with?

Answer 25

300L Australia

Question 26

What is the volume of a puncheon?

Answer 26

450 or 500L

Question 27

What is a bocksbeutel and where is it used? What was its original purpose?

Answer 27

Flattened flask used in the German wine regions of Franken and Baden (Ortenau) Its original purpose was to guarantee the authenticity of Würzburger Steinwein prior to WWI. Following the war it became a common bottle of Franken.

Question 28

What is the volume of a Marie-Jeanne? What is the also known as?

Answer 28

2.25L or equivalent to 3 standard bottles Tappit Hen

Question 29

What is the volume of a Tappit Hen and where is it used?

Answer 29

2.25L and used traditionally for Port aka Marie-Jeanne

Question 30

What is a Jéroboam known as in Bordeaux? What is the volume?

Answer 30

Double Magnum 3L or the equivalent to 4 standard bottles

Question 31

What is the volume of a Methuselah and what is it called in Bordeaux?

Answer 31

6L or the equivalent of 8 standard bottles Called an Impériale in Bordeaux

Question 32

What is the volume of a Salmanazar?

Answer 32

9L or the equivalent of 12 bottles or a case of wine

Question 33

What is the volume of a Balthazar?

Answer 33

12L or the equivalent of 16 bottles

Question 34

What is the volume of Nebuchadnezzar?

Answer 34

15L or the equivalent of 20 bottles

Question 35

What is the volume of a Bordelais Jéroboam since 1978? What is this bottle size called in Burgundy and Champagne?

Answer 35

4.5L or the equivalent of 6 bottles or 1/2 case of wine Called a Rehoboam in Burgundy and Champagne

Question 36

What is the volume of a Piccolo? What is this also known as?

Answer 36

0.1875L or 1/4 of a standard bottle aka quarter bottle, pony, snipe, split

Question 37

What is the volume of a quarter and where is this bottle used?

Answer 37

0.2L; used in Champagne

Question 38

What is the name of a bottle that holds a volume of 5L?

Answer 38

McKenzie

Question 39

What is the volume of a Melchior and what is it known as in Champagne?

Answer 39

18L or the equivalent of 24 standard bottles Known as a Solomon in Champagne

Question 40

What is the volume of a Sovereign? Where is this used?

Answer 40

35 bottles or 26.25L Used exclusively for Champagne

Question 41

What is the volume of a Primat? What is it also known as?

Answer 41

27L or 36 standard bottles

Question 42

What is the volume of a Melchizedek or Midas?

Answer 42

30L or the equivalent of 40 bottles

Question 43

What is the traditional bottle of Jura that is not the clavelin?

Answer 43

Jurassienne

Question 44

What are garrafões?

Answer 44

Plastic, squat bottles used in Vinho Verde

Question 45

What is the traditional straw bottle of chianti?

Answer 45

Fiasco

Question 46

What is the traditional tulip-shaped glass for Sherry?

Answer 46

copita

Question 47

What is a dolium?

Answer 47

large earthenware vessel used in Ancient Roman times with a capacity of several thousand liters.

Question 48

What cross created Dornfelder?

Answer 48

Helfensteiner x Heroldrebe