The joys of being a couple hours away from champagne. Turns out champagne (or even regular wine, for that matter) does not come in just one size. The convenient demi-bouteilles (half-bottles) are nice for the two person family. And if you're a wine enthusiast, you'll know that the magnum size (two bottles) have the optimal ratio of surface area to wine volume (OK, let's just say all of the french know this). Regardless, the size of bottles larger than a magnum get to be a mouthful:Jeroboam (6 bottles), named after the first King of the 10 tribes of Israel
Methuselah (8 bottles), 969 year old Israeli patriach mentionned in Genesis
Salmanazaar (12 bottles), Assyrian King
Balthazar (15 bottles), One of the Three Wise Men
Nebuchadnezzar (20 bottles), Babylonian King
Pictured above is a Jeroboam (next to a normal sized bottle of wine) that I picked up in Epernay.
