Nowadays wine is, as we know, generally supplied in bottles, as well as in tetra-pak boxes.
The “standard” bottle contains 750 millilitres of wine.
Bottles are though made in larger sizes than this to hold larger volumes, especially Champagne.
These bottles sizes and their names are listed below:
| Name | Number of bottles | Volume |
| Standard | 1 | 750 ml |
| Magnum | 2 | 1.5L |
| Jeraboam | 4 | 3L |
| Rehoboam | 6 | 4.5L |
| Methusalah | 8 | 6L |
| Salmanazar | 12 | 9L |
| Balthazar | 16 | 12L |
| Nebuchadnezzar | 20 | 15L |
| Melchior | 24 | 18L |
| Solomon | 28 | 20L |
| Sovereign | 33.3 | 25L |
| Primat | 36 | 27L |
| Melchizedek | 40 | 30L |