Many common wine bottle sizes are named for Biblical kings and other historical figures. The quantity liter (litron) was introduced in France in 1795. One liter is slightly more than one U.S. liquid quart. The following are standard and non-standard bottle sizes.
Wine Bottle Sizes
1. Piccolo (aka Pony, Quarter)
¼ standard bottle = 1 glass, 187.5 mL
2. Chopine
1/3 standard bottle = 1 ¼ glass, 250 mL
3. Half Clavelin
310 mL
4. Demi or fillette or split
half standard bottle = 3 glasses, 375mL
5. Tenth or Half
375mL
6. Jennie (sweet wine)
¾ standard bottle = 4 glasses, 500 mL
7. Clavelin (french use for vin jaune)
21 ounces = 5 glasses, 620 mL
8. Standard
1 bottle = 25.4 ounces = 6 glasses = 75cl, 750 mL
9. Fifth (referred from fifth of a gallon)
26 ounces = 6 glasses, 757 mL
10. Litre
33.8 ounces = 8 glasses, 1 litre (1000 mL)
11. Magnum
2 standard bottles = 12 glasses, 1.5 litres
12. Marie Jeanne (Tappit Hen(port))
3 standard bottles = 18 glasses, 2.25 litres
13. Double Magnum (sparkling Jeroboam)
4 standard bottles = 24 glasses, 3 litres
14. Rehoboam or Jeroboam
6 standard bottles = 36 glasses, 4.5 litres
15. US Jeroboam
6.75 standard bottles = 40 glasses, 5 litres
16. Imperial
8 standard bottles = 48 glasses, 6 litres
17. Methuselah
8 standard bottles (sparkling wines) = 48 glasses, 6 litres
18. Mordechai
12 standard bottles = 72 glasses, 9 litres
19. Salmanazar (aka Shalmaneser)
12 standard bottles = 72 glasses, 9 litres
20. Balthazar
16 standard bottles = 96 glasses, 12 litres
21. Nebuchadnezzar = 20 standard bottles
120 glasses, 15 litres
22. Melchior(aka double Salmanazar)
24 standard bottles = 136 glasses, 18 litres
23. Solomon
26 standard bottles = 156 glasses, 20 litres
24. Sovereign
33 standard bottles = 196 glasses, 25 litres
25. Italian Primato
35 standard bottles = 210 glasses, 26.25 litres
26. Primat (PREE-mah) or Goliath or Paramount
36 bottles = 216 glasses, 27 litres
27. Melchizedek
40 standard bottles = 240 glasses, 30 litres
28. US Sovereign
50 standard bottles = 300 glasses, 50 litres
Liquid Measurements
1 liter = 1000 milliliters (mL)
0.26 US gallon / 1.05 US quart / 2.11 pint / 33.8 oz
1 standard bottle (75cl)
750mL = 0.2 US gallon / 0.8 US quart / 1.58 pint / 25.35 oz
A standard bottle is 13 ¾ inches high and 3 7/16 inches in diameter.
