Designation of an oversized bottle for champagne with a volume of 27 litres or the content of 36 standard 0.75 litre bottles. Such a bottle size is used as a marketing gag by the champagne house Drappier, for example. The name Babylonium is used for still wines; Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, among others, bottles in this format. However, the names are not origin-protected, but can be used freely for sparkling wines or wines. See lists under bottles (all formats) and wine vessels (all types, from antiquity to the present day).
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