Methuselah (Mathusalem in French)
A large bottle format of 6 litres or eight 0.75 litre bottles.
Methuselah: An extra-large bottle holding 6 liters; the equivalent of eight standard bottles.
Murky: More than deeply colored; lacking brightness, turbid and sometimes a bit swampy. Mainly a fault of red wines.
Methuselah: Champagne bottle with a 6-liter capacity.
Millésime: French for vintage or year.
Methuselah - A large bottle holding six litres, the equivalent of eight regular wine bottles.
Microoxygenation - The controlled exposure of wine to small amounts of oxygen in the attempt to reduce the length of time required for maturation.
Methuselah
Large-format bottle that holds an enormous six litres of Champagne (eight bottles' worth). Go on, impress your friends. Let's hope it isn't *corked, though.
methuselah...
6-litre bottle size, equivalent in volume to eight standard bottles.
microclimate...
Magnum 2 bottles = 1/3 gallon Jeroboam 4 bottles (a double magnum) Rehoboarn 6 bottles = 1gallon Methuselah 8 bottles Salmanazar 12 bottles = 2 gallon Balthazar 16 bottles Nebuchadnezzar 20 bottles ...
Jeroboam 4 bottles (a double magnum) = 3 litres
Rehoboarn 6 bottles = 4.5 litres
Methuselah 8 bottles = 6 litres
Salmanazar 12 bottles = 9 litres
Balthazar 16 bottles =12 litres
Nebuchadnezzar 20 bottles = 15 litres ...
The same names are used for bottles containing wine and port; however, Jeroboam, Rehoboam, and Methuselah refer to different bottle volumes.
Capacity (Liters) followed by the number of standard size bottles contained:
Standard (.75) 1
Magnum (1.5) 2
Jeroboam (3) 4
Rehoboam (4.5) 6
Methuselah (6) 8
Salmanazar (9) 12
Balthazar (12) 16
Nebuchadnezzar (15) 20 ...
 See also: Bottle, Magnum, White, Wine, Red
  
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