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On 1-Feb-2005, (Cwdjrx _) wrote:

> If you can, look on p.7 of the Feb. 2005 issue of Decanter. The world's
> largest bottle of wine was recently sold at a charity auction, and it is
> filled with the 2001 Beringer Private reserve. The bottle alone weighs
> 68 kg(150 lb) empty. It is 1.38 m tall and holds 130 L., or about 173
> bottles. The bottle was made in Sazava in the Czech Republic. The botle
> is pictured next to a single bottle and the Beringer winemaster Ed
> Sbragia. It sold for US$ 55,812 at Sotheby's New York. I think you may
> have to hire a gorilla to pour from that bottle :-).

I was thinking that a really long straw would be in order