Names of bottle sizes: sources wanted

[jdaw1]

Wikipedia has a page on Wine bottles, the talk page of which says that there was a hoax about the names of some bottle sizes, that Wikipedia hoax since having been echoed elsewhere on the web. Wikipedia needs pre-2007 references, ideally from reputable printed books, listing the names of bottle sizes. If you have, please provide help.

[uncle tom]

The wiki table could benefit from having a column for port added. There is also an error in that it lists the Tappit Hen as 2.25L when in fact it is 2.1L.

I have also observed that some old magnums of port hold 1.65L instead of 1.5L, but no-one has yet been able to tell me whether this used to be universal, or when the practice ended.

Good literary references are thin on the ground for port bottle sizes, and writers of old on all subjects were notorious for copying each others mistakes.

Observations of actual practice is probably favourite here.

- And is it really desirable for the port trade to borrow French bottle names when filling large formats?

Perhaps the trade should agree some names of their own..

[AW77]

There is an entry on "bottle sizes" in the Oxford Companion to Wine (3rd edition, page 98-99). You will find all the names there.