Piccolo

Term for "small" champagne bottles with a volume of 0.2 or 0.25 litres. In Austria and Germany, "piccolo" (Italian for "little one") is also the name for a waiter's apprentice. Around 1900, bottles of this size were also known as "quart" (quarter bottles) and were used for the "Medicinal-Sect" sold in pharmacies. In the early 1930s, Sektkellerei Henkell used this bottle with the Germanised name (k instead of c) for the "Henkell Trocken" brand with a small, nimble waiter as a figurative mark designed by Fred Overbeck, which was then protected as a registered trademark from 1935.

Henkell - Pikkolo - Werbung

From 1904, the German sparkling wine producer Kessler also used a trademark designed by the Simplicissimus graphic artist Josef Benedikt Engl (1867-1907) for its advertising, featuring two small waiters rushing over with a sparkling wine cooler. From the 1920s onwards, the original advertising motif became Kessler's trademark. However, the name "Pikkolo" in connection with sparkling wine is reserved for the Henkell company. See also under bottles and wine vessels.

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