Size Matters! A Wine Bottle Guide.

To the right is the "Bible" of wine bottle guides. Literally. It seems these big fellers are all named after guys in the Bible.

Jeroboam is the name of "a mighty man of valor who made Israel to sin" (Kings 11:28 14:16). Rehoboam was the son of Solomon while Methuselah is a Pre-Noachian patriarch stated to have lived 969 years. That's a vintage with some age on it.

The reign of Nebuchadnezzar (I've usually heard it pronounced, "Nebah-kah-nezzar") extended from B.C. 604 to 561. In 598BC he laid siege to Jerusalem and in 588 again captured the city, and carried Zedekiah, who had rebelled against him, captive to Babylon. The name Nebuchadnezzar, or more accurately Nebuchadrezzar is derived from the Jewish Scriptures. But in the inscriptions it reads Nebo-kudurri-ussur, i.e., "may Nebo protect the crown"; a name analogous to that of his father Nebo(Nabu)-habal-ussur. ("Nebo protect the son") and to that of Belshazzar, i.e., "Bel protect the prince." No wonder the bottle is so big.

Melchior, King of Light and Balthazar, King of Treasures are two of the Three Wise Men (the other being Gaspar, The White One). Finally, Salmanazar, was an Assyrian king.
This is giving me a great idea for designing a Nativity Scene!