Kracher Grabs Guinness Title for Largest Bottle of Wine

by Laura Malesich (RSS feed)
Dec 27th 2007 at 3:02PM

You may have invited a crowd over for New Year's but how many people do you think it would take to drink a 490-liter bottle of wine! Dubbed the largest bottle of wine in the world, Austrian winemaker, Kracher, holds the title in the Guinness Book of World Records with its 2005 Grand Cuvee TBA NV No.7 equivalent of 69,000 glasses of wine. Recently on display in the Swiss town of Rehetobel it certainly grabbed visitors' attention. Now, who else wants to come to the party...

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Jack Dec 28th 2007 1:11AM

"...equivalent of 69,000 glasses of wine." was obviously calculated by the mathematically-challenged. (Or do you think a glass of wine is about 1/4 oz?)

The actual number (based on a fairly typical, but not universal, two ounce pour for a glass of dessert wine) is 8,284 glasses.

And on an extremely sad note, Alios Kracher Jr. died recently:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/obituaries/08kracher.htm