That bottle is Armand de Brignac’s Ace of Spades champagne — with the 30-liter Midas selling for upward of $100,000 per ...

Wine bottles come in various shapes, sizes, weights, and colors of glass. A quick tour. Bottle shapes • Tall, slender. Wines from Germany’s Mosel and France’s Alsace.

Learn about the different shapes of wine bottles, from Bordeaux to Burgundy to Alsace to Champagne. Learn what bottle shape says about the wine inside, and how the glass impacts the wine.

Learn about commonly used wine bottle sizes. Our guide to wine bottles explores the range of sizes, how the size of a bottle impacts the taste of a wine, and how a wine will age.

Don’t forget the Melchizedek bottle, also known by the Midas name. This bottle holds 30 liters of wine. To put that in perspective, it’s equivalent to 40 standard bottles.

If you can't read wine labels (yet), start with the shape of the bottle. Sabrina Tan / Food & Wine The shape, color, size, and weight of a wine bottle are typically unrelated to the quality of what’s ...