Veueve Clicquot Yellow Label, Half Bottle

[mrdutton]

There have been several postings scattered throughout the Wine Board concerning the ability of a wine to maintain its quality based on the size of its bottle.

The consensus seems to point toward the larger bottles with the magnum being at some sort of pinnacle on the list.

It would, indeed, be interesting to find out why there is such a difference. It seems to me that there must be some kind of objective, quantitative reason for this, rather than the subjective, qualitative reasons that we've used to justify "resting" (for instance).