Bottles and Magnums of Champagne

A magnum is a double-sized bottle and the other champagne bottle sizes are not always the same as the ones for still wine, so what? Like still wines, a magnum has a smaller wine-air interface than a bottle in comparison with the large amount of wine it contains and therefore it ages slower and usually that gives a more “elegant” result. But that's not all.

Champagne gets its fizz from a second fermentation in the bottle in which it is eventually sold, but this actually only happens in the above two bottle sizes. Everything else is transferred from either a bottle or a magnum, be it halves or the gigantic nebuchadnezzar (holds 20 bottles). Now that makes champagne in bottles and magnums the best format to choose for your enjoyment.