The magnums won't be ready for auction for at least a year or so.

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I've brought magnums before, but I've never thought to bring a dessert wine.

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Sixteen small bottles of sweet white dessert wine have already been produced and the aim is to fill 94 magnums with the sparkling wine.

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Any decent wine steps it up a notch in these unusual sizes, which are also common for better champagnes, like Dom Perignon, widely available in magnums.

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Despite a burgeoning supply from China and demand from the Middle East, Josephine Ive, who heads up Magnums Butlers and trains 600 Chinese service staff yearly, says her students are often hesitant to make the trip.

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The beauty of oversized format bottles is that they are fun and festive in their own right, the kind of thing you are only opening for company or celebrations, and the wine itself hardly matters, with the exception of some mass-produced warehouse store or budget wines that are occasionally sold in magnums.

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