Possible Clues:

• Giant bottle
• Very large wine bottle named after old king of Israel
• A job more arduous for the old king
• Wine-bottle holding equivalent of four normal bottles
• Humorous author briefly keeping snake in large sparkling container?
• Wine bottle 4-12 times the ordinary size
• Very large wine bottle named after Israeli king
• Old nuisance rising in crowd showing some bottle
• Dress up a Rome job? That's a lot to swallow!
• Three-litre champagne bottle