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Summary: Get to know the various sizes of champagne bottles, including how many bottles of champagne are in a magnum; learn more about champagne and sparkling wine in this free instructional video.
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David Postada David Postada is Chef and owner of the Big Easy Catering company in Santa Barbara, California. read more
Hi this is Dave for Expert Village today we're going to discuss champagnes and sparkling wines okay like any wine champagne comes in different sizes of bottles depending on how what your needs are also they age differently in different size of bottles. So here's a few that we have okay the smallest bottle here is called a split this is good for 1 1/2 or so glasses so good for single portions. And then there's also something in between there's a half bottle perfect for a couple just to have a glass or 2 of champagne, then here's your classic bottle, the one most people are familiar with this. This is a 5th or 750 milliliter when most people have and then there's a magnum this is a 2 bottle size and then we have a Jeroboam this is for 4 bottles of champagne in one. Pretty festive and fun and there's some in between and those are we already said the magnum, there's a Mariejeanne which is a 3 bottle size really unusual and hard to find but fun. The Jeroboam with the 4 bottles of champagne with Methuselah has 8 bottles in it and salmanazar has 12 bottles in it, really huge and really fun to see.