5L large format wine glass bottle

Description: 5L large size wine glass bottle Burgundy Cork antique green

Bottle Capacity: 5L

Item number: JRW119

Color: Antique green

Finish: CORK

Design weight: 3KG

Base: full punt

Height: 530mm

Larger wine bottle sizes are well suited to longer aging of Bordeaux wine or other wines. It is a fact that wine from larger format wine bottles age more slowly, and possibly even develop more complexity and nuances than wines from smaller wine bottle sizes. This is due to the smaller amount of air, or more accurately, (oxygen and sulfur dioxide) that resides between the cork and the wine.

The surface to air ratio between the wine and the bottom of the cork is called ullage. The amount of ullage can either oxidize the wine, causing it to age prematurely, or develop at a slower pace of maturity. This takes because because the more air the surface of the wine is exposed to, the faster the wine is going to develop.

That is why half bottles develop so much faster than large format bottles. This means that if you’re planning on buy a very old bottle of wine, or aging a wine for 30, 40, 50 or in some cases 100 years, the wine will most likely be better if it was aged in a large format bottle. Plus, large format wine bottles also look quite impressive on the dinner table!

Very large format bottles might also require custom made corks that need to be individually cut and produced. Because that cork was made one at a time by a person, that exact size might not be perfect, which could lead to an imperfect seal and if that is the case, the wine will not age as well.