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Wine IQ Quiz 3 – Bottle Service
 Look at different bottles types, different containment vessels, then opening of bottles
 Standard 750ml most common – metric system (sorry Americans)
o About 5 glasses of wine
o 95-99% of wines are this
 You can also buy half a bottle – 375ml
o A lot of sparklers come in half bottles
o Great for if your partner doesn’t drink – serves about 2.5 glasses
o Great to buy more expensive wines around $50, and gamble for something
you’ve never tried before for $20
o Our put half of a 750 bottle and pour into a 375 ml and cork it up for better
storage
 You can also buy splits - 187.5ml
o Prosecco, sparking wines
o One glass of wine
 German and Austria wines – liter bottle
o Bottle and a half
o Never seen often in the new world wine category or in France
 Magnum – 1.5 liter bottles
o Two standard bottles
o Seen more in France
o More affordable
o Better for long term storage
o Bigger bottles allows wine to marry well with itself in a bigger volume
o Party setting
 Methuselah – 6 liter bottle
o Won’t see too often
o Hardcore partiers
 Salmanazar – 9 liter bottle
o Case of wine
o You can get even bigger if you want  Nebuchadnezzar (15 liter bottle)
o Need a sword to open the cork
 Different types of vessels
o 1. Bottles (glass)
 Most are stored in this
 Standard
 The thing on top is becoming less standard
 Cork: bark of the cork oak tree – is natural
o Is flexible
o 2. Boxed wine
 Franzia is mass marketed
 Don’t judge the book buy its cover
 More serious producers are moving to this

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