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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 26, 2018 9:09:59 GMT
...on one of the great questions of our time;
... who decided that 75cl was the appropriate size for a standard bottle of wine?
Hic!
Just askin'....
TnE, Glenorchy, NZ.
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Post by Alanović on Nov 26, 2018 9:16:55 GMT
Dunno but they were just about right for me. I can consume a bottle of an evening and be pretty much unscathed the next morning. Anything over that, i.e. if I get the taste and open another bottle, or heaven forfend investigate my malt whisky collection, I'm done for.
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Post by Humph on Nov 26, 2018 10:10:08 GMT
I'm not a regular drinker, far from it, I often go weeks or even months between occasions when I drink alcohol. But, I enjoy it when I do I suppose, never been a big thing in my life. Too many other things I want to do with my time that would be compromised by numbing my already relatively limited senses.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 11:41:51 GMT
Perusing the whisky collection after reducing the wine cellar is *never* a good idea.
Somehow though, saying "I'll just have a little one", or "just the one", though both are consistently proven to be wrong, somehow make it feel like this time it's going to be a good idea.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 12:39:33 GMT
I do find it odd that whisky is sold in 70cl bottles and wine in 75cl. Clearly they are drunk in different quantities, but on that basis a wine bottle should be at least three times larger than a whisky bottle.
Drinking for me is at the weekend with food. Wine or whisky - rarely both at the same meal. Black Friday had some good malt deals on Amazon. Ardmore at under £20 and Penderyn at £20.
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Post by WDB on Nov 26, 2018 15:24:15 GMT
Folklore has it that this dates from the days when bottles were blown by mouth. 750ml is about one good lungful (well, two, but you get the idea) and that set the paradigm.
Now google it and find it’s a myth. 🤓
Whisky used to be in 750ml bottles too. The standard was reduced to 700ml quite recently — 1990s, I think — for reasons that may have been to do with tax harmonization across markets. 700ml equates closer to the old US ‘fifth’ — only it doesn’t! A fifth of a US gallon is 757ml! And I now find the US uses 750ml as a standard for spirits; 700 is only in Europe.
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Post by bromptonaut on Nov 27, 2018 8:28:12 GMT
"just the one", though both are consistently proven to be wrong, somehow make it feel like this time it's going to be a good idea. What was the TV series with the catchphrase "just the one Mrs Wembley"? |
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Post by WDB on Nov 27, 2018 9:06:04 GMT
On the Up. Thanks for putting Dennis Waterman in my head for the rest of the day. 😫
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