Nebuchadnezzar

Yours is the most imaginative response that I have ever received! :-) The next time that I invade Tokyo, I shall point my legendary fire breath in a different direction if you happen to be present.

Godzilla

I remember Melchior (first name Lauritz) as a very famous Danish operatic tenor of yesteryear. This is a new bottle size designation for me - just when I thought that I had them all categorized.

Godzilla

Yes, but there's an easy explanation: until standardization of bottle sizes in France (and later within the EU) sometimes in the

1970s (was it 1973? From then on a standard bottle had to have 750ml, larger sizes being multiples), some regions in France had different bottle standards:

Saint-Galmier* 900ml Burgundy** 800ml Champagne*** 800ml Bordeaux etc. 750ml Alsace ("flute") 720ml Jura ("clavelin")**** 620ml

(Source: Raymond Dumay, "Le Guide du Vin", Paris 1967, cited from my German edition published 1969, p. 240)

• Neber heard of that region before.

** The book says that mostly 750ml bottles are used, so this seems to be a very a historical figure.

*** For the wine content you had to deduct 20 ml, so you could read the content on the label of a standard bottle "780 ml", a magnum was "1580 ml". I remember very well having seen contents labelled as such.

**** The still existing only exception from the 750ml standard.

So a Nebuchadnezzar was 16 litres (15.98 to be exact) in former times, while it's 15 litres today.

M.