Wine Bottle Sizes Guide

Wine Bottle Sizes Guide

Mark Wellman |

Wine and Champagne are bottled in various sizes; the wine you would typically purchase off the shelf from a wine merchant or a supermarket is a ‘standard’ 750ml wine bottle, but other sizes are available. The size of wine bottles ranges from 187.5ml, referred to as ‘Split’ and is typically a one-glass serving, up to 15L. Magnum-sized bottles (1.5L) are available for specific wines and champagnes; for example, a Moet and Chandon Nebuchadnezzar is available for an eye-watering £1,200 per bottle! A 15L bottle is referred to as a ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ and is equal to twenty (yes 20!) bottles, roughly 100 glasses of wine!

What are the different bottle sizes for Wine?


Wine Bottle Sizes Chart

Capacity Name Description Amount of glasses
187.5ml Split Usually for single glasses of Champagne (referred to as Piccolo in Italian) 1
375ml Half It holds half a standard-size bottle (referred to as ‘Demi’ in France) 2
750ml Standard Universal bottle size for most wines around the World 5
1.5L Magnum Double the standard bottle 10
3.0L Double Magnum/Jeroboam Two Magnums or four standard bottles 20
4.5L Rehoboam Six standard bottles 30
6.0L Imperial Eight standard bottles or two Double Magnums 40
9.0L Salmanazar Twelve standard bottles 60
12.0L Balthazar Sixteen standard bottles or two Imperials 80
15.0L Nebuchadnezzar Twenty standard bottles 100


About the Wine Bottle size names

Traditional different-sized wine bottles have been named after Biblical kings and historical figures, as shown below:
Jeroboam First King of The Kingdom
Salmanazar Assyrian King
Balthazar One of The Wise Men
Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon