[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Maximus the world's largest bottle of wine ever made

Tony Patti gaffer at glassblower.info
Fri Mar 8 20:55:34 EST 2013


The hot glass portion of the video starts approximately 1.5 minutes into the
video.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1uXgznT64 

 

6.5 minute promotional / documentary made by Filip Kurek | www.kdesign.cz

 

http://www.bottlenotes.com/the-daily-sip/news/worlds-largest-wine-bottle 

 



Hope You're Thirsty


Apr 3, 2012
Hope You're Thirsty 
American glass designer and Czech glass company create 264-pound bottle




maximusIt is more than eight feet tall and holds enough liquid to fill 760
standard wine bottles.

When it was first designed in 2009, Maximus, as it is known in the Czech
Republic, was the largest wine bottle in the world. You may have seen the
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1uXgznT64> YouTube video of its creation
at  <http://www.bohemia-machine.cz/> Bohemia Machine, a high tech glass
grinding company. CEO Jiri Trtik commissioned Charlie Parriott, an American
glass designer, to create the 27-inch wide bottle for a display on the
cruise liner Oasis of the Seas.

So how do you build the largest wine bottle in the world? According to Filip
Kurek, who handles public relations for Bohemia Machine, it takes several
stages and up to five weeks because even the simplest manipulation of the
bottle is a multi-man job. 

Glass geeks may appreciate that the bottle is made of seven pieces of
borosilicate, a type of technical glass used to make test tubes, which are
welded using an enormous glass-cutting lathe and then torched together with
heated oxygen propane.

Aren't you glad you asked?

Oh and by the way, the Maximus bottle is filled with Caymus 2007 Special
Selection Cabernet Sauvignon from the Napa Valley.

 

 

 


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