Methuselah

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6 liters, eight standard bottles.

1 methuselah = 6 liters (exactly).

About the methuselah

Methuselah, the oldest man in the Bible and grandfather of Noah, lends his name to a bottle of 6 liters, equal to eight standard 750 mL bottles. Wikipedia's table lists it as Imperial or Methuselah, since the same size is also called an imperial, and notes that bottle names of this kind are not applied consistently everywhere.

The naming pattern is a trade tradition rather than a rule of law. Most of the large Champagne formats borrow names of biblical kings and figures: Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Salmanazar, Balthazar and Nebuchadnezzar. The same article says the sizes section needs better sources, and in places the origins are unclear, so claims about who first used them should be treated cautiously. In practice a Methuselah is rare outside special occasions. A magnum is 1.5 L and a Methuselah four times that, about 202.9 US fluid ounces.

Sources: Wikipedia: Wine bottle

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