Piccolo (sparkling wine)
A piccolo (from Italian piccolo : "small") or Germanized piccolo is a champagne bottle with a capacity of 0.2 liters. In addition, quarter wine bottles with a capacity of 0.25 liters are also referred to as piccolos. The quarter bottle was known as the “Quart” bottle as early as 1900 and was mainly used to market the “Medicinal-Sects” sold through pharmacies and hospitals.
The term “Piccolo” was Germanized in the mid-1930s by the Henkell Sektkellerei , which used it as a registered trademark for marketing its Henkell Trocken product in quarter bottles. The bottle size became popularly synonymous with a small bottle of sparkling wine.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the piccolo was also advertised with a small, nimble waiter as the dominant advertising figure. The trademark - designed by Fred Overbeck - has become synonymous with the 0.2 liter bottle from Henkell. Because at that time piccolo was still a common name for waiter apprentices.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Kluge, Elmar Seebold: Etymological dictionary of the German language . Ed .: Walter de Gruyter. Berlin / New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-017473-1 , pp. 703 .