The World's Largest Wine Bottle Comes To The United States

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 19th 2007 at 12:04PM

The world's biggest wine bottle has hit New York. The Five Virtues Shiraz bottle is six feet, five inches tall and weighs 1,300 pounds easily besting Maximus, the 4.5 foot bottle of Beringer Cabernet Sauvignon that we wrote about back in 2004. The bottle is the equivalent of 387 regular bottles and is sealed with a cork worth $3,500. It cost $11,000 to fly the bottle to and from its home in Australia. The bottles was shipped to the U.S. as part of G'day USA: Australian Week. The idea was conceived by Kim Bullock a liquor store owner and the Shiraz was created using grapes from five different winemakers and 12,000 normal-size bottles were also created. You can check out a pic of the bottle in all its oversized glory here.

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