| The biggest wine bottle in the world - more than 6 feet (1.8 meters) tall and weighing 1,300 pounds (585 kilograms) - arrived from Australia last week for a quick date with American connoisseurs, reports International Herald Tribune.
Its $3,500 (€2,708) cork kept the equivalent of 387 regular bottles of Shiraz from thirsty mouths - indefinitely.
"I've gotten lots of offers for it, and I've turned down one for $100,000 (€77,387)," Kim Bullock, the creator, said when it reached New York last Thursday.
The bottle was flown in at a cost of $11,000 (€8,512).
A dozen muscular men used a dolly and an iron pry bar to inch the prized package through the brass doors of the Cipriani Wall Street ballroom.
The bottle was the centerpiece of a show featuring all things Australian, culinary and cultural - part of a nationwide marketing effort dubbed "G'day USA: Australian Week."
The bottle's saga reaches across three continents. As owner of a liquor store in Australia , Bullock had commissioned the glass bottle to be crafted in Germany . The cork was hand carved from a tree in Portugal . Then five fine winemakers in Australia 's Great Southern region mixed their best types of Shiraz grapes into a single 2005 vintage, calling their collective vineyard Five Virtues.
The bottle size beats out what was previously the world's largest wine bottle, the Maximus, which holds 175 regular bottles of wine.
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