A MONSTER BARREL
The famous Heidelberg wine barrel, once the largest of its kind in the world, is surpassed in size by a new barrel in the wine cellar of Matheus Mueller, at Eltville-on-the-Rhine. It holds 283,500 quarts of Rhine wine. If each drank a regular size threequarter litre bottle a clay, it would take IS men 60 years to drain the huge container. It is 49 feet long, 23 feet wide, and 10 feet high. The Heidelberg barrel has been dry for many years, Lut in the days of its usefulness it held 20075 S quarts. Mueller's wine cellar also has a barrel containing
about 100,000 quarts of champagne.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAIPO19260708.2.5
Bibliographic details
Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1780, 8 July 1926, Page 2
Word Count
110A MONSTER BARREL Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1780, 8 July 1926, Page 2
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Waipa Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.