Do you feel the champagne bottle is a little heavy when you pour champagne at a dinner party? We usually pour red wine with only one hand, but pouring champagne can take two hands.
This is not an illusion. The weight of a champagne bottle is almost twice that of an ordinary red wine bottle! Regular red wine bottles usually weigh around 500 grams, while champagne bottles can weigh as much as 900 grams.
However, don’t be too busy wondering if the champagne house is stupid, why use such a heavy bottle? In fact, they are very helpless to do so.
Generally speaking, a champagne bottle needs to withstand 6 atmospheres of pressure, which is three times the pressure of a Sprite bottle. Sprite is only 2 atmospheres pressure, shake it a little, and it can erupt like a volcano. Well, 6 atmospheres of champagne, the power it contains, can be imagined. If the weather is hot in summer, put champagne in the trunk of the car, and after a few days, the pressure in the champagne bottle will directly soar to 14 atmospheres.
Therefore, when the manufacturer manufactures champagne bottles, it is stipulated that each champagne bottle must withstand a pressure of at least 20 atmospheres, so that there will be no accidents later.
Now, you know the “good intentions” of champagne manufacturers! Champagne bottles are “heavy” for a reason