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Champagne Bottle Sizes

Did you know that there were so many Champagne bottle sizes?

From a tiny Piccolo (2 glasses) right up to a Melchizedek (240 glasses!)

 

Bottle
Volume (cl)
Standard Bottle Equivalent
Number of Glasses
Piccolo
20cl
1/4
2
Demi
37.5cl
1/2
3
Standard Bottle
75cl
1
6
Magnum
150cl
2
12
Jeroboam
300cl
4
24
Rehoboam
450cl
6
36
Methuselah
600cl
8
48
Balthazar
1200cl
16
96
Nebuchadnezzar
1500cl
20
120
Solomon
1800cl
24
144
Sovereign
2625cl
35
210
Primat / Goliath
2700cl
36
216
Melchizedek
3000cl
40
240

 

Piccolo

This is the smallest of champagne bottles and its name originates from Italy, translated as “small” This will fill one tulip of champagne.

Demi

This bottle comes in at half the size of a standard champagne bottle and gets its name from “half” in French.

Standard Bottle

This is the standard size of Champagne bottle and allows for 6 glasses of champagne.

Magnum

This name comes from Latin which means “great”. This is an affordable large bottle of champagne which is exactly double the size of a standard bottle. (12 glasses)

Jeroboam

This bottle of Champagne gets its name from the 1st king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel who ruled for 22 years over the late 10th Century. Translated as “he increases the people” This bottle will fill 24 glasses and is 3 litres in size.

Rehoboam

Translated as “he who enlarges the people” this bottles name comes from the son of King Solomon. This bottle is 4.5 litres and fills 36 glasses.

Methuselah

The Hebrew Bible states Methuselah as the oldest person to ever live. He was said to have lived a whopping 969 years and his name today symbolises great age! This bottle contains 6 litres and will fill 64 glasses

Salmanazar

This name is a variation of the 5 Assyrian kings who were in power between the 13th and 8th centuries BC. This bottle provides 72 glasses and comes in at 9 litres.

Balthazar

Balthazar was a King of Arabia who was said to have presented gifts to Jesus at birth. This bottle is 12 litres in size and can fill nearly 100 glasses, 96 to be exact!

Nebuchadnezzar

This name is taken from probably the most powerful of all the Babylonian kings. He rules from 7th century to the 6th BC. This is regarded to many as one of the biggest bottles of champagne coming in at 15 litres and filling 120 glasses, but alas there are bigger!

Solomon

This bottle is named after a king of Israel. This is known to be very rare and usually only found in French Champagne houses. The exact size and volume of this bottle is often debated, but the CIVC and UMC declare it as 18 litres/24 bottles.

Sovereign

This bottle is quite probably only produced by Taittinger, who in 1988 created a bottle of “Sovereign” for the baptism of the largest cruise ship in the world, named the “Sovereign of the Seas”

Primat / Goliath

The Primat, also known as Goliath is a bottle which weighs in at 27 litres and will fill 216 glasses. The name Goliath is taken from the account of the battle between David and Goliath in the Bible.

Melchizedek

The biggest of them all, this whopping bottle comes in at 27 litres and can fill 240 glasses, double the size of a Nebuchadnezzar and weighs 65 kilos, with a diameter of 10 inches and 40 inches tall!