Most of the wines on the market are 750ml standard bottles, in addition to 375ml small bottles of wine, as well as a wide variety of large bottles of wine. Some people think that the large bottled wine has a stronger ageing potential, a better taste and a higher investment value; but some people hold different views on this.
First, what are the capacity of large bottles?
The capacity of large bottled wines is usually a multiple of the 750ml standard volumetric flask, and these large bottles have their own names:
1. Magnum Magnum: 1.5L (2 bottles)
2. Double Magnum bottle: 3L (4 bottles)
3. Jeroboam: 4.5L (6 bottles)
4. Imperial or Masserialem bottle: 6L (8 bottles)
5. Salmanazar: 9L (12 bottles)
6. Balthazar: 12L (16 bottles)
7. Nebuchadnezzar: 15L (20 bottles)
8. Melchior: 18L (24 bottles)
Second, is the big bottle of wine really better?
The difference in the size of the wine bottle means that the ratio of wine to air in the wine is also different. The larger the bottle, the smaller the ratio of alcohol in the unit area to the air under the cork. As a result, wines in large bottles age more slowly, allowing them to be better preserved. In contrast, half-bottled wines (375ml) age faster than standard bottled wines. So it can be said that if a bottle is large enough, the wine in the bottle will hardly age, that is, its state (including aroma, tannin, acidity, etc.) can almost keep its bottling over time. The state is the same.
Of course, some people think that large bottled wine will not only add a lot of trouble to the wine, but if there are few people, drinking large bottles of wine can lead to waste or drunkenness.
