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A friend said to me, "Anyway, I'm going to their annual Christmas party, which should be good. Apparently he buys a Methuselah every year!" "Um, how many bottles is that again?" I asked. "Yeah, I can't really remember," she said. And so we decided a refresher course was in order.
As you all know, a bottle of champagne is 750ml, also known as 75cl, or, perhaps most importantly, approximately nine units of alcohol.
And a magnum is two bottles of Champagne in one. (We know this all too well as Waitrose brands and sells a very reasonably priced Magnum for £33 - how great is life?)
After that, we need a chart. So here it is:
You can find a Jeroboam for £110 at Berry Bros. & Rudd, a Salmanazar from TheDrinkShop.com for £410, or a Balthazar for £675 from DrinksDirect.co.uk.
Alas, a brief Google search did not yield a Melchizedek for sale anywhere.
And a magnum is two bottles of Champagne in one. (We know this all too well as Waitrose brands and sells a very reasonably priced Magnum for £33 - how great is life?)
After that, we need a chart. So here it is:
- Piccolo - 1/4
- Demi - 1/2
- Magnum - 2
- Jeroboam - 4
- Rehoboam - 6
- Methuselah - 8
- Salmanazar - 12
- Balthazar - 16
- Nebuchadnezzar - 20
- Melchior - 24
- Solomon - 28
- Melchizedek - 40
- Magnum (Magnum P.I.?)
- Jeroboam (The first king of Israel)
- Rehoboam (Solomon's son, and the first king of Judah)
- Methuselah (the oldest man in the Bible, who lived to 969)
- Salmanazar (one of five kings of Assyria)
- Balthazar (one of the three wise men)
- Nebuchadnezzar (one of four kings of Babylon)
- Melchior (another of the three wise men)
- Solomon (son of David, and one of the kings of Israel)
- Melchizedek (slightly random OT guy)
You can find a Jeroboam for £110 at Berry Bros. & Rudd, a Salmanazar from TheDrinkShop.com for £410, or a Balthazar for £675 from DrinksDirect.co.uk.
Alas, a brief Google search did not yield a Melchizedek for sale anywhere.
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Foreign-born Madame B thinks she's a City girl, but mostly just walks our streets checking things out and searching for the best wi-fi hotspots offered by The Cloud. You can spot her typing furiously on her shiny white MacBook, wearing dark sunglasses and drinking a glass of champagne. She's one half of the Shopaholics, which might explain things...
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