Start from the top and work your way through the board. Ask your wine merchant for properly representative bottles of each, and aim for mid-range, affordable options.
Tag: wine
Truer words…
A version of Monopoly I’d finally like to play
Tastes like… wine
when you can’t find exactly what you want
Bobble has gotten around quite a bit
The first mention of Bobble the owl in my blog goes all the way back to 2005. I don’t honestly remember when Bobble started living full-time in my bag. Probably while I was working at the EBI and traveling a lot for business.
In the years since, he’s been to Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the US. He’s driven boats, ferries, tractors, planes. He’s travel on planes, trains and automobiles. He’s drunk lots of coffee, beer, wine, gin, port and cocktails. He’s eaten everything from gourmet meals to roadside fast-food. He’s enjoyed vices like cigars, gambling and tattoos. He’s attended scientific conferences, training courses and workshops, West-End plays and movies.
Not bad for a little ball of stuffing :)
Long live the owl!
12-step recycling problem
So, following on from this previous post, my recycling bin officially has a drinking problem.
It’s been exactly one month since it got emptied. In that time, it drank 18 bottles of wine, 1 bottle of gin, 1 bottle of vodka and 1 bottle of Kahlúa.
Virtual wine tasting
A couple of weeks ago, I got an intriguing letter from Celliers de Sion. As a way to drum up business during the lockdown, they were offering “wine in tubes”-based sampling sets of 8 or 16 wines from their selection. The wines are tubed under controlled atmosphere so they don’t oxidize.
Given that all our wine tasting events have been put on hold or cancelled, I suggested this to the wine club at work and it proved to be a popular idea. We all got our kits delivered by post and we met up online tonight.
It was the best use of corporate communication channels I’ve made all week.
Tasty, too!
My recycling bin has a drinking problem
So I went to dump our recycling. I do it periodically. I *think* the last time I did it was about a month ago, probably before all the covid-19 goodness.
Since then, my recycling bin has consumed 16 bottles of wine, a bottle of gin, a bottle of vodka and a giant tub of instant coffee.
Should I call someone for it?
Wine bottle sizes
Half-Bottle
Holds 375 ml or one half of the standard bottle size.
Bottle
Holds 750 ml – the standard size.
Magnum
Two bottles or 1.5 litres.
Double Magnum
Twice the size of a magnum, holding 3.0 litres, or the equivalent of 4 bottles.
Jeroboam
There are two sizes of Jeroboams: the sparkling wine Jeroboam holds 4 bottles, or 3.0 litres: the still wine Jeroboam holds 6 regular bottles, or 4.5 litres.
Rehoboam
Champagne only – 4.5 litres or 6 bottles.
Imperial / Methuselah
Both hold 6 litres or the equivalent of 8 bottles. The Imperial tends to be Bordeaux shaped while the Methuselah is usually used for sparkling wines and is Burgundy-shaped.
Salmanazar
Holds 12 regular bottles (one case), or 9.0 litres.
Balthazar
Holds 16 bottles or 12.0 litres.
Nebuchadnezzar
Holds 20 bottles of wine or 15.0 litres.
Melchior / Solomon
Holds 24 bottles of wine or 18.0 litres
Melchizedek / Midas
A Champagne format which weighs in at 30 litres, equivalent to 40 standard bottles.