Rehoboam (unit)

This article is about the wine bottle size. For the monarch of the Hebrew Bible, see Rehoboam.

Rehoboam (French name: réhoboam) was a UK bottle size for wine and champagne.^[1][2][3]

Also refer Wine bottle sizes.

Definition

6 reputed quarts.^[1]

Conversion

1 rehoboam = 6 reputed quarts^[1]

1 rehoboam = 1 UK gal ^[1]

1 rehoboam = 0.004546092 m^3[1]

Other uses

In the 1849 novel Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, chapters 1 and 17, the clergyman Mr Helstone is described as wearing a "Rehoboam, or shovel hat".