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)
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About 5 glasses of wine
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95-99% of wines are this
You can also buy half a bottle – 375ml
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A lot of sparklers come in half bottles
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Great for if your partner doesn’t drink – serves about 2.5
glasses
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Great to buy more expensive wines around $50, and gamble for something
you’ve never tried before for $20
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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
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Prosecco, sparking wines
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One glass of wine
German and Austria wines – liter bottle
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Bottle and a half
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Never seen often in the new world wine category or in France
Magnum – 1.5 liter bottles
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Two standard bottles
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Seen more in France
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More affordable
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Better for long term storage
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Bigger bottles allows wine to marry well with itself in a bigger volume
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Party setting
Methuselah – 6 liter bottle
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Won’t see too often
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Hardcore partiers
Salmanazar – 9 liter bottle
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Case of wine
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You can get even bigger if you want
Nebuchadnezzar (15 liter bottle)
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Need a sword to open the cork
Different types of vessels
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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
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Is flexible
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2. Boxed wine
Franzia is mass marketed
Don’t judge the book buy its cover
More serious producers are moving to this
