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I thought the 750ml bottle was a single serving size? For a joke, my family got me a 750ml glass a couple of Christmases ago. I have yet to use it.

• cperciva 6y ago
  750 ml has nothing to do with how much wine people are expected to drink at once; it's an artifact of glass-blowing. A typical medieval glass-blower's lungs allowed them to create bottles of 700-800 ml with a single long breath.
  • mark-r 6y ago
    That's a very cool piece of useless trivia. Thanks.
  • jasone 6y ago
    Is there something about glass blowing which makes it air-inefficient? My vague recollection from my time as a low brass player in college is that the prof's lung capacity measuring apparatus (yes, really) put most of us in the 3-4L range, with one outlier around 5L. Granted, we were trained for such magnificent feats of blowing hot air, but so too must glass blowers be.
    • ZiiS 6y ago
      It is more about the pulmonary strength needed to start the bubble in sufficent glass for the bottle size.
    • Arech 6y ago
      I'd guess that it's also relates to a pressure that glass blower had to create. Then the total volume would be less than free volume.
• myrandomcomment 6y ago
  Sounds like something you should aspire to :) I can drink a bottle myself lunch to bed on a weekend, but not every weekend.