• towerful@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Standard bottles of wine are generally 750ml tho. So a pint would be less.
    The current small bottles are 187ml (personal?) and 375ml (half/demi).
    So, 568ml just doesn’t fit. And I have no idea who would actually produce them.

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      1 year ago

      Especially when the 500ml measure already legally exists—y’know that bottle size you never see because what’s the point of it

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      1 year ago

      English winemakers (yes, they exist…) who will now sell a pint of wine at the cost of a 0,75l bottle

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      1 year ago

      As a confused American, why does 187ml size exist? My confusion is not with the metric system, I’m fluentish. But… Why so small? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bottle of wine smaller than 500ml, and even that is pretty teeny. That’s the size of a water bottle. Am I just not shopping at the right liquor stores, or is this a British thing to do shots of wine?

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Do you not step foot in liquor stores? They have 4 packs of Sutter Home and other cheap wine brands in 4 packs of 187 ML. 4 bottles = 750 ml bottleish. They are meant to bring as singles to events or picnics or whatever. These have existed for far longer than those small 500 Ml wine boxes.

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            Even the most dodgy liquor stores sell these in my experience. But I do not traverse the Midwest, so maybe mileage will vary.

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              Where I’m from the government owns all the liquor stores so we don’t get everything. We may have those though, I’ve never looked.

      • nous@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        I think it is for travel and hospitality places. Not something you would typically buy in a shop or liquor store but more a hotel or at an airport or similar.

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      1/3 pint is 189 ml, so basically a glass of wine at 1/4 a bottle is a third of a pint. It’s pretty much the sweet spot where metric and imperial meet for volume measurements.