Bottle

The most common wine bottle size worldwide is 750 ml, but it is not standard. Some German wine bottles are a liter, some are 700 ml, while some from Alsace are 720 ml. Every wine bottle consists of a mouth, neck, ogive or shoulder, body, and bottom. The bottom may contain an indention, the term for which is a punt. Some almost standard names for different size wine bottles are:

• Sample - 175 ml
• Split (Sparkling) - 187 ml
• Third-Bottle - 250 ml
• Half-Bottle - 375 ml
• Pot - 500 ml (Beaujolais table bottle)
• Claveli - 620 ml (Jura bottle)
• Bottle - 750 ml
• Magnum - 1.5 litres
• Tregnum - 2.25 litres
• Double-Magnum - 3 litres (Bordeaux shaped)
• Jeroboam (Sparkling) - 3 litres (Burgundy shaped)
• Jeroboam (Still) - 4.5 to 5 litres (Bordeaux shaped)
• Rehoboam - 4.5 litres
• Imperial (Still) - 6 litres (Bordeaux shaped)
• Methusalah (Sparkling) - 6 litres (Burgundy shaped)
• Salmanazar - 9 litres (Bordeaux shaped)
• Balthazar (Sparkling) - 12 litres (Burgundy shaped)
• Nebuchadnezzar (Sparkling) - 15 litres (Burgundy shaped)
• Soverign - 50 litres