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Wine Selection
Valuable information on wine bottles.

Bottles
You can recognize the basic types
of wine by the shape and color
of the bottle.

Bordeaux
comes in bottles with
rounded shoulders.

Burgundy
comes in bottle with
sloping shoulders.

Rhine
comes it tall,
slim, brown bottles.

Moselle
comes in tall,
slim, green bottles.

There are 3 standard sizes
for all wine bottles:
half bottles, bottles,
and magnums (two bottles).

Champagne
comes in bottles which get bigger and bigger,
and with more and more fantastic names.
Half-bottle
Bottle
Magnum = 2 bottles
Jeroboam = 4 bottles
Rehoboam = 6 bottles
Methusselah = 8 bottles
Salmanzar = 12 bottles
Balthazar = 16 bottles
Nebuchadnezzar = 20 bottles

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Wine Panel One and Wine Panel Two.

Dolores Borunda's
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Phone# (714) 969-7469
Fax# (714) 969-7490
PO Box 7050
Huntington Beach, CA 92646