New Wine Bottle Holds 1200 Glasses

[matcom]

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RAISE a glass - 1200 of them to be exact - to New Jersey, new home to the world's largest bottle of wine.

A business in Tenafly, in northern New Jersey, paid $US55,812 ($A71,389) for a 1.35-metre-tall bottle of cabernet sold last Saturday at Sotheby's, said auction house spokeswoman Kristin Gelder. Wine Ventures, a wine and chocolate shop, plans to put the bottle on display at its business.

The 153kg bottle was the work of master glass blowers in the Czech Republic, and holds the equivalent of 173 standard bottles of Beringer Vineyards 2001 Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. That translates to 1200 glasses of wine.

The bottle, dubbed Maximus, was certified as the world's largest by the Guinness World Records. The Morton's steakhouse chain, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, partnered with California-based Beringer to create the record-setting bottle.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11483199%255E13762,00.html

[Paradise]

1. Thanks. That's Maximus, matcom! ;) n/t

[RivetJoint]

2. I'll take two, please

BIG party coming up...

[Bamboo]

3. Monster Thickbottle

http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4BMY5

[JVS]

4. Hmmmm, if I could only get my favorite wine in that kind of bottle.

[Left Brain]

5. Sure puts the 32-oz Big Gulp to shame

[jmowreader]

6. Have you seen this?

http://www.bumwine.com

Has objective reviews of Thunderbird, Night Train, Cisco, Mad Dog 20/20 and Wild Irish Rose.

This ain't http://www.erobertparker.com; nowhere on Mr. Parker's site is a category entitled "Worst Taste."

[Aiptasia]

7. Woohoo night train!

Right up there with Boone's Farm and Manichevitz! Mmmm, smell the cap.... It was a good week!

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. I want to see pictures, of full glasses and the big bottle