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What is Methusaleh Size?
A Methusaleh holds 8 regular bottles of Champagne.
What are regular bottle sizes for a bottle of wine?
Regular sizes are for most German wine bottles is 0.70 liters. Some bottles from Alsace are 0.72 liters.
The older French wine bottles most likely hold 0.80 liters, a common measure for Burgundy, Champagne and Rhone before 1945.
The newer ones hold 0.75 liters. That's the new measure used for Bordeaux and most Californian winebottles too.
helmut schonwalder 12-15-2002
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