"The biggest selling point [of the magnum] is that your friends are going to be so impressed," says Rebecca Fineman, master sommelier and managing partner of Ungrafted and GluGlu in San Francisco.
In fact, a magnum is 1.5 liters, or double the volume of a standard bottle, and shouldn't cost more than two regular bottles of the same wine.
"The beauty of a magnum is that it matures more slowly" than standard and half bottles of wine, says Fineman. "So the wine is just always in the best shape." And because producers tend to reserve the magnum treatment for the wines they consider worth celebrating, it's usually a safe bet that the big bottles contain something special. It's also cool that more guests get to taste the exact same bottle.
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