The answer from Bodegas Tamaral is 12litres.

Basset, a much better name than the conventional Balthazar and a nice thought that a Basset is greater, in size at least, than a case of wine, a Salmanazar.

I would want to bring a slightly larger bottle along to the photo shoot, perhaps a Nebuchadnezzar or a Melchoir - I would wouldn’t I.

Most of us are too busy downing our wine one standard bottle at a time to concern ourselves with other possible bottle sizes, for the curious, here they are.

• 187.5ml Piccolo or Split used for a single serving of Champagne

• 375ml Demi or Half one-half a standard 750mll size

• 750ml Standard bottle size for most wine in the shops

• 1.5litres Magnum two standard bottles

• 3litres Double Magnum two Magnums

• 4.5litres Jeroboam six standard bottles

• 6litres Imperial eight standard bottles or two Double Magnums

• 9litres Salmanazar twelve standard bottles, a full case of wine!

• 12litres Balthazar sixteen standard bottles or two Imperials

• 15litres Nebuchadnezzar twenty standard bottles

• 18litres Melchoir twenty-four standard bottles

• 20litres Solomon twenty-six standard bottles

• 25litres Sovereign thirty-three and a third standard bottles

• 27litres Primat or Goliath thirty-six standard bottles

• 30litres Melchizedek forty standard bottles

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