Bottle used for holding wine is called a wine bottle and it is mostly made of glass. Wines are sometimes fermented in the bottle while some others are fermented and then bottled. Wine bottles come in variety of shapes and in sizes. They also come in different colors. A standard wine bottle contains 75 cL. Corks are used to seal the wine bottle but in recent years screw top caps are becoming very popular. And several other methods also exit to seal the mouth of the wine bottle.
The table below gives standard wine bottle sizes.
| Split | 1/4 bottle | 18.7 cl |
| Half | 1/2 bottle | 37.5 cl |
| Bottle | 1 bottle | 750 ml |
| Magnum | 2 bottles | 1.5 l |
| Jeroboam | 4 bottles | 3 l |
| Methuselah | 8 bottles | 6 l |
| Salmanazar | 12 bottles | 9 l |
| Balthazar | 16 bottles | 12 l |
| Nabuchadnezzar | 20 bottles | 15 l |
