The worst I have are from Cristom in Oregon. I must say, I have been surprised and impressed by how many wineries have backed off on the super fat bottles in the last few years.
Saw this today… these are each 750ml bottles. The one on the left weights 1.2kg!!! Empty!! I thought the biggest Cab bottle out there was Pahlmeyer, until I saw this. I was blown away. You can’t even see through it! You could hide Iran’s nuclear weapons program in there.
The one on the left looks suspiciously like the one Chappellet used for its Pritchard Hill bottling back in the late '90s. Damn thing could have been used as a boat anchor.
Fwiw, I asked Mounir why the big ol’ bottles: that is apparently the size that bottles in Burgundy used to be prior to their industrial manufacture. Still doesn’t make it cool for 65% of the racking out there, but…it’s not just to be big for bigger’s sake.