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A wine bottle is a bottle used for holding wine, generally made of glass. Some wines are fermented in the bottle, others are bottled only after fermentation. They come in a large variety of sizes, several named for Biblical kings. The standard bottle contains 750 ml, although this is a relatively recent development.

Sizes

Champagne

Other wines and port

  • Half-bottle: 0.375 l
  • Standard: 0.75 l (still sometimes referred to as a "fifth", the old US value of 0.2 gal. or about 0.757 l)
  • Magnum: 1.5 l
  • Double Magnum: 3 l
  • Jeroboam: 4.5 l (note that size differs from that for sparkling wine. There are also some 5 l Jeroboams)
  • Rehoboam: 4.5 l
  • Imperial: 6 l
  • Salmanazar: 9 l
  • Balthazar: 12 l
  • Nebuchadnezzar: 15 l
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