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Mini Wine Bottle and Wine Bottle Size

This article will list mini wine bottle size for your review.

What is a wine bottle

A wine bottle is a bottle, generally a glass bottle, that is used for holding wine. Some wines are fermented in the bottle while others are bottled only after fermentation like pinot grigio.

Recently the bottle has become a standard unit of volume to describe sales in the wine industry, measuring 750ml standard size(26.40 imp fl oz; 25.36 US fl oz). Wine bottles are produced, however, in a variety of volumes and shapes like 187ml mini wine bottles.

Wine bottles are traditionally sealed with a cork, but screw-top caps are becoming popular, and there are several other methods used to seal a bottle.

Wine glass bottle name and size

Many traditional wine bottle sizes are named for Biblical kings and historical figures.

wine bottle sizes

375 ml Demi or Half: Holds one-half of the standard 750 ml size.

750 ml Standard: Common bottle size for most distributed wine called standard size, standard bottle of wine.

1.5 L Magnum: Equivalent to two standard 750 ml bottles, for party favors and wedding favors.

3.0 L Double Magnum: Equivalent to two Magnums or four standard 750 ml bottles.

4.5 L Jeroboam: Equivalent to six standard 750 ml bottles. (In sparkling wines, a Jeroboam is 3 liters)

4.5 L Rehoboam: A sparkling wine bottle with six standard 750 ml bottles.

6.0 L Imperial: (aka Methuselah) Equivalent to eight standard 750 ml bottles or two Double Magnums.

9.0 L Salmanazar: Equivalent to twelve standard 750 ml bottles or a full case of wine.

12.0 L Balthazar: Equivalent to sixteen standard 750 ml bottles or two Imperials.

15.0 L Nebuchadnezzar: Equivalent to twenty standard 750 ml bottles.

18.0 L Solomon: (aka Melchior) Equivalent to twenty-four standard 750 ml bottles.

187ml Mini: wine glass bottles bottle holds 187 ml

Mini wine bottles are not even closely related to those tiny little liquor bottles that you see in some stores. We’re not talking about those single-serving sized Captain Morgans that you can add to your Coke on your plane ride to Los Angeles…mini wine bottles are much different.

How Mini Wine Bottles are Different

We can buy little liquor like 50ml single-serving sized bottles of favorite liquor in the super-market very easily. Mini wine bottles in this article are different from those 20ml, 30ml and 50ml clear bottles. The mini wine bottles come in mainly one size: 375ml servings or frequently called half bottle hold 375 ml. This is not to say that there are not smaller sizes made-there are-but we’ll get to that later. Half bottles of wine are growing in popularity and demand is going up for this format of wine lables bottle.

Half-bottles have their purpose, and they are getting more popular nowadays since family size are getting small than ever. First, unlike hard liquor wine does not last more than a couple of days in the bottle after being opened.

So if you went out, purchased a bottle of your favorite branding liquor with custom labels and had a glass one night, a glass the next night and a glass the third night you would still have just shy of half a bottle left over that you can’t really drink anymore (you can tell if a bottle has been opened for longer than two days-even if you gas it, take the air out, etc.) That’s a waste of wine and a waste of your money. The perfect solution to this is to purchase half-bottles instead of full bottles. Not only are they cheaper obviously than full bottles, but you have the perfect amount to last a couple of days without worrying you will have too much left over.

Half Bottle Markets

One of the largest markets for half bottles at this point is the restaurant industry. It’s just a perfect sized bottle to have with a nice dinner out for two people. Again, instead of purchasing a full 750ml bottle of wine (and at restaurants, that can be up to a 300% markup) and having some left over, a half bottle is the perfect way to go when having a meal when you just want a couple of glasses of wine. The other benefit to half bottles of wine at a restaurant is how it works well with multiple courses. For example, when I go out with a few friends and do a tasting menu progressive dinner at a nice restaurant, sometimes we pick out 2-3 half bottles to share so we can have a little bit of wine to pair with different courses. This works out very well.

As mentioned earlier, there are other sizes smaller than 375ml bottles. That is true, but you must be careful. First of all, if you go smaller than half-bottles, the quality of the wine offered tends to go down. Most wineries do not make anything smaller than 375ml unless they are a huge company. So if you go to your grocery store and look down the chilled beverage aisle, if you see those little four or six-packs of 187ml (called “splits”) chances are it’s going to be Beringer White Zinfandel or Sutter Home Chardonnay. Not to talk badly about those wines, but for many people they like to drink wines with a little more quality and finesse. Let’s put it this way-you won’t find “splits” of Rombauer Chardonnay or Silver Oak Cabernet on the shelf of your wine merchant. However, sparkling wine and Champagne sometimes comes in split 187ml bottles. The market for that is a little better than just normal wine because for many people one or two glasses of bubbly is perfect.

The Downside

There are downsides to mini bottles. First, just because you’re buying half the amount of wine does not mean you’re going to pay half the price. Wineries bottle much more 750 ml bottles (standard bottle of wine) than 375ml. Because of this fact, it’s cheaper to purchase the glass bottles in the larger size because of the sheer amount that they are buying. You still have to put corks in half-bottles of wine, so there is a cost there as well. In other words, yes you’re getting half the wine, but not half the amount of work went into bottling that bottle.

Another downfall to half-bottles is that wine ages better in larger format bottles. Half-bottles tend to age quicker than other size formats do. If you’re drinking newer vintage wines this is not an issue…but if you ever splurge and want to purchase a 10+ year old half-bottle of wine, ask the server/wine merchant about that bottle and how he thinks it has aged.

Lastly, unfortunately not all wineries produce half-bottles. Again, there is a cost associated with doing this size format, and for many smaller wineries they don’t want to put the effort into making a small production of wine. More and more wineries, however, are doing half-bottles because of the restaurant industry, so hopefully we will see a shift of half-bottle availability.

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