Champagne Bottle Sizes Mnemonic

Champagne is mostly fermented in two sizes of bottles standard bottles 750 millilitres and magnums 1 5 litres.

Champagne bottle sizes mnemonic.

However there is no hard evidence for this view. This isn t a phrase but this is how i remember them. Anyway a bottle of champagne is 75cl and is the standard measuring unit we will use. M ichael j ackson m akes s mall b oys n ervous magnum jeroboam methuselah salmanazar balthazar nabuchadnzzar.

The half bottle or fillette. Magnum 1 5l jeroboam 3l rehobaum 4 5l methuselah 6l slamanazar 9l balthazar 12l nebuchadnezzar 15l grands crus of chablis. Both the civc and the umc union of champagne houses state it at 18 litres 24 bottles. Rehoboam 4 5 l 6.

Type capacity number of bottles. Bottle 75 cl 1. Magnum 1 5 l 2. Quarter not illustrated 18 75 cl 1 4.

Other sources not cited here have the solomon variously at 20 litres 26 6 bottles or 21 litres 28 bottles but i m inclined to go with the civc and the umc. Lets hear your favorite wine mnemonics robert volz over 9 years ago example. 2 bottle is a magnum and i would imagine most people like me would have hear about this far. Melchizedek 40 bottles 30 liters lastly the greatest of all the melchizedek champagne bottle.

3l 4 bottles of champagne the high capacity bottles are rarer and some of them being of considerable size are made to order for special events. The primat bottle has a capacity of 27 liters equivalent to 36 bottles 216 champagne glasses weight 65 kilos 143 pounds height 100cm 40 inches diameter 26cm 10 inches. I had never considered the size of champagne and bottles and to use a bit of foreshadowing the word really sounded like a splendid belching noise. I didn t write this one michael jackson really makes small boys nervous names and sizes.

Jeroboam 3 l 4. In general magnums are thought to be higher quality as there is less oxygen in the bottle and the volume to surface area ratio favours the creation of appropriately sized bubbles. Half bottle 37 5 cl 1 2. To memorize champagne bottle sizes.