If you’re like us, the holidays probably make you feel especially generous, both in spirit and in the size of your wine pours. While a standard 750 mL bottle of wine is perfect for most occasions, once the gatherings grow a little larger, and the celebrations more meaningful, it’s the ideal time to break out those large-format MacRostie wines from your collection. Epic, impressive, and profoundly age-worthy, when it comes to the size of a wine bottle, bigger is definitely better—and not just because there is more wine to pour.

Here at MacRostie, we bottle many of our most sought-after wines, including single-vineyard offerings, in various large formats, including Magnums (1.5L – 10 glasses), Double Magnums (3L – 20 glasses) and Jeroboams (4.5L – 30 glasses). Whether serving as a dramatic centerpiece on your holiday table or given as a statement gift, there is an inherent “Wow!” factor to large-format wines that never fails to impress. While large-format wines are perfect for turning gatherings into celebrations, they are also prized for their long-term age-worthiness. From Magnums to Methuselahs, because of the smaller amount of air in the bottle compared to the volume of wine, large-format wines age on a more gradual and graceful trajectory. As they do, they reveal nuances and complexities that make the enjoyment of a perfectly cellared wine so sublime.

Because these wines have such an enhanced lifespan when bottled in large formats, and because of their overall rarity, they are also perfect wines for commemorating birth years and wedding anniversaries. Here at MacRostie, we set aside a small number of large-format wines every vintage for our acclaimed wine library, with some of these coveted bottlings dating back almost a decade! If you are a connoisseur of aged Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, you’ll feel like a kid in a candy store as you look at all of the wonderful large-format wines we have available. Whether you make them the centerpiece of your collection, the centerpiece of your festive holiday table, or share them as unforgettable gifts, we invite you to go big this holiday season!

We invite you to explore our large-format library.