Guide to Wine Bottle Sizes | Wine Folly
Curiously, the historic convention for naming wine bottle sizes is after biblical kings! As with many parts of the aesthetics of wine, nomenclature for wine bottle formats reconnects us to the structures of wine culture. Wine has long been a living part of our history and day-to-day lives, and so unsurprisingly the bottle names are connected to one of our oldest written documents.
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