This is a Wine Bottle! World's Largest Wine Bottle Holds over 173 Bottles of Beringer Vineyards Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon.CHICAGO -- Guinness World Record Holder Will Help Fight Hunger Fight Hunger is a global initiative, based in Rome, Italy [1], calling for the end of child hunger by 2015 [2]. It is organised by the World Food Programme and its partners, and comprises different activities throughout the year. Through Tour of Morton's Steakhouses and Sotheby's Auction In a record-breaking move that celebrates its own 25-year history, Morton's, The Steakhouse has commissioned what has just been certified by Guinness World Records as the "World's Largest Wine Bottle(TM)." With the capacity to hold over 173 standard bottles -- the equivalent of 1200 glasses -- of wine, this masterpiece of glassmaking art was certified by Guinness World Records today at a ceremony where the bottle was carefully filled with 130 liters of Beringer Vineyards 2001 Private Reserve Napa Valley Napa Valley, Calif.: see under Napa. Napa Valley greatest wine-producing region of the United States. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2990] See : Wine Cabernet Sauvignon Cab·er·net Sauvignon n. 1. A variety of black grape used to make red wine, notably in Bordeaux and the Napa Valley. 2. A dry red wine made from this grape. [French. . The spectacular bottle, a product of international skill and creativity that measures 4.5' tall and 4.5' around, will make a coast-to-coast tour of 27 of the 61 Morton's restaurants in the U.S., celebrating the steakhouse's 25th anniversary with wine and food receptions. Guests will enjoy an array of Morton's hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and two acclaimed Beringer wines: the 1998 Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and 2002 Stanly Ranch Chardonnay. Cost: $40 per person. Guests will also have to opportunity to be photographed next to the "King Kong King Kong giant ape brought to New York as “eighth wonder of world.” [Am. Cinema: Payton, 367] See : Giantism " of wine bottles - dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the "Maximus" by Fred Dame, Master Sommelier and president of the Court of Master Sommeliers. The tour's first stop will be San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden on August18th. Morton's, known for its extensive wine selection, partnered with Beringer Vineyards in early 2004 to create the gigantic Bordeaux-style bottle. The massive bottle mold was built in the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. , and four bottles were hand-blown from Simax(TM) glass. After the final firings, one bottle was shipped to California, where it has been filled with Beringer's 2001 Napa Valley Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, the vineyard's finest wine blended from seven Napa Valley vineyards. The huge cork, handmade in Portugal from the finest corkwood corkwood: see bombax. , was finished with a wax seal. Beringer will store the bottle, with its valuable vintage contents, under ideal temperature and humidity conditions until November, when it will be shipped (ever so carefully) to the world-renowned Sotheby's galleries in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , to be auctioned by its international wine department, with 100% of the proceeds going to Share Our Strength, one of the world's leading hunger-fighting umbrella organizations
An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or . Bidding will be open to the public. Tylor Field, Morton's director of beverage operations, and an internationally-recognized wine maven, notes: "In addition to supporting a great cause, the lucky top bidder will own a 340-pound artifact A distortion in an image or sound caused by a limitation or malfunction in the hardware or software. Artifacts may or may not be easily detectable. Under intense inspection, one might find artifacts all the time, but a few pixels out of balance or a few milliseconds of abnormal sound of wine history and be able to surprise a business associate with a one-of-a-kind Christmas gift or have a wine tasting Noun 1. wine tasting - a gathering of people to taste and compare different wines assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place wine tasting n → degustación f de vinos party for as many as 1,200 of his or her closest friends!" For additional information about the WLWB (World's Largest Wine Bottle) and tour details, visit: www.mortons.com.
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Want to know more about the WLWB (World's Largest Wine Bottle) and
the grand bottle's grand tour; Morton's, The Steakhouse, Beringer
Vineyards; Share our Strength or Sotheby's?
Please contact:
Patty Pleuss Denise St. Jean
Director of Marketing Murphy O'Brien
MORTON'S THE STEAKHOUSE 310-586-7168
312-755-4202 Direct
ppleuss@mortons.com
Or
Allison Simpson
Director, Public Relations
Beringer Vineyards
707-963-8989, ext. 2162
Allison.simpson@beringerblass.com
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BOTTLE STATS:
Bottle name: "Maximus" (Most big bottles of wine are named after
biblical kings: a Jereboam, six bottles; a Salmanazar, 12 bottles; a
Balthazar, 16 bottles and a Nebuchhadnezzar, the granddaddy of them
all, 20 bottles)
Capacity: 130 liters, equivalent to 14.4 cases (9 liter), or 173
bottles (750ml), or 1152 glasses (80 per case)
Height: 1.37 meters, equivalent to 4.5 feet
Diameter: 43.6 centimeters, equivalent to 1.4 feet
Circumference: 1.38 meters, equivalent to 4.5 feet
Weight empty: 150 pounds
Weight full: 340 pounds
Wine: 2001 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
Bottle producer: Kavalier Glass Works, Sazava, Czech Republic
Bottle mold producer: Stanislav Jedinak and Ajeto Czech Glass Craft
s.r.o
Cork Producer: Cork Supply USA, from the finest Portuguese cork
harvested from trees in the southern region of the country
Cork size: 130mm wide x 75mm long
Sotheby's Auction Date: November 20
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