At a wine festival in Beirut, the world’s biggest wine glass measuring 2.4m by 1.65m has been unveiled. An adjudicator from the Guinness World Records declared it to be the world’s biggest, beating the previous record held by Portugal for the last 12 years.

The Lebanese organisers of the festival, which is being held at the Hippodrome in Beirut, poured around 100 bottles of Lebanese wines of all colours – reds, whites and rosé – and the glass, made from plexiglass, was not even quarter full. The organisers said that winemakers from across the country had contributed their various wines as part of a campaign to promote Lebanese wine, half of which is exported.

“This glass brings together all the wine producers in Lebanon,” said the creator of the wineglass at the unveiling.

The previous record was created in Portugal in 1998 when the glass measuring 1.51m high and 1.46m at the widest point.