Home > Food and Drink > Wine > Glossary > Glossary (J) > Jeroboam

sign up for free membership
Register
today for full
access to InterSites ...


Jeroboam

A large format bottle, and the most confusing of all, for it means different things to different wines. In Bordeaux it is equivalent to six standard bottles, but in Burgundy and Champagne a Jeroboam contains the equivalent of a mere four bottles (a double magnum in Bordeaux).