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7 glasses of wine in two hours is just under one full bottle of wine an hour. That's a significant amount of wine. edit: What I'm trying (probably poorly) to g

by pflats 15y ago

7 glasses of wine in two hours is just under one full bottle of wine an hour. That's a significant amount of wine. edit: What I'm trying (probably poorly) to get at is that almost anyone who kills a bottle of wine in an hour knows that they're drinking heavily.

Retric 15y ago
Average wine bottle 750ml average glass of wine 5-US-fluid-ounce (150 ml). So 5 glasses / bottle. Drinking 1.4 bottles of wine over 2 hours is significant, but not all that much. Assuming that's all you drink for the night AND you drank during a large meal. For example my BAC would probably peak at around .07 which is below the drunk driving limit in Virgina. (Yea, I am a big guy.) PS: His comment was simply that 5 drinks in a short period is not exactly reasonable definition for binge drinking.
- sambeau 15y ago
  Traditional wine glasses are 1/6 of a bottle. Modern wine glasses (especially the ones sold supermarkets in the UK) are ⅓ of a bottle each. Wine, which was 15 years ago 7-10% alcohol is more commonly 14% today. Thus our 'glass of wine' is regularly 4 of your parents or grandparents'.
  - gyardley 15y ago
    You know, you're not supposed to fill a wine glass to the brim. There's supposed to be plenty of extra room in a wine glass - it's important for aeration and for properly bringing out and concentrating the aroma of the wine. My cabernet sauvignon or pinot noir glasses could probably hold an entire bottle of wine each, if I wanted to fill them up, but that'd be ridiculous. The proper pour remains about a sixth of a bottle - bigger wine glasses just mean the public's grown more aware of the effect of glass shape on taste. No disagreements on the increased alcohol content in wine over the last generation or so - blame Robert Parker and his popularization of a certain type of dark full-bodied red. 'Good' has gotten associated with 'boozy'.
- cullenking 15y ago
  Sorry, there is no way you can drink 1.4 bottles of wine in 2 hours and blow a 0.07. Sorry, but this is a huge problem and the reason there are so many people who drink and drive. If people realized they were over the 0.08 limit, they probably wouldn't drive, however, many people think they are under when they are not.
  - Retric 15y ago
    7 glasses of wine over 2 hours ~= 6 glasses of wine in 1 hour for a reasonably healthy person. A 140 LB male drinking 6 glasses of wine ~= BAC of approximately .16. I weigh twice that .08. However, a full stomach can significantly delay the amount of time to takes alcohol to enter the blood stream. Not that I would actually drive like this, I do these calculations using the 140lb model to play it safe. In a fasting individual, it is generally agreed that 10% to 20% of a dose of alcohol is absorbed from the stomach (the volume of alcohol affects the absorption) and 75% to 80% is absorbed from the small intestine. Because of this peak blood alcohol concentrations are achieved in fasting people within 0.5 to 2.0 hours, (average 0.75 - 1.35 hours depending upon dose and time of last meal) while non-fasting people exhibit peak alcohol concentrations within 1.0, and in extreme cases up to as much as 4.0 hours (average 1.06 - 2.12 hours). http://www.intox.com/t-Physiology.aspx http://www.intox.com/t-Physiology.aspx PS: Again, this assume 'standard' glass of wine many people poor more than twice that into a single cup and call it a glass. If your actually going to drive play it vary save and or drink beer with alcohol content printed on the label.
    - cullenking 15y ago
      Being 280lbs certainly helps you out :) With that much wine, the ABV makes a big difference as well. I crunched the numbers using 12% alcohol content, 35 ounces (1.4 750ml bottles), 2 hours and 280lbs to get 0.091, so still not hammered, but with 14% ABV it was over 0.122.
      - Retric 15y ago
        Sure, I prefer the 9-10% ABV side of things because they tend to be sweeter and 5ounces @ 10% = 1 standard drink equivalent so I can just use the chart. Still, I think people are pushing up the alcohol content to compensate for weighing more.

by pflats 15y ago

Retric 15y ago

Average wine bottle 750ml average glass of wine 5-US-fluid-ounce (150 ml). So 5 glasses / bottle. Drinking 1.4 bottles of wine over 2 hours is significant, but not all that much. Assuming that's all you drink for the night AND you drank during a large meal. For example my BAC would probably peak at around .07 which is below the drunk driving limit in Virgina. (Yea, I am a big guy.) PS: His comment was simply that 5 drinks in a short period is not exactly reasonable definition for binge drinking.

sambeau 15y ago
Traditional wine glasses are 1/6 of a bottle. Modern wine glasses (especially the ones sold supermarkets in the UK) are ⅓ of a bottle each. Wine, which was 15 years ago 7-10% alcohol is more commonly 14% today. Thus our 'glass of wine' is regularly 4 of your parents or grandparents'.
- gyardley 15y ago
  You know, you're not supposed to fill a wine glass to the brim. There's supposed to be plenty of extra room in a wine glass - it's important for aeration and for properly bringing out and concentrating the aroma of the wine. My cabernet sauvignon or pinot noir glasses could probably hold an entire bottle of wine each, if I wanted to fill them up, but that'd be ridiculous. The proper pour remains about a sixth of a bottle - bigger wine glasses just mean the public's grown more aware of the effect of glass shape on taste. No disagreements on the increased alcohol content in wine over the last generation or so - blame Robert Parker and his popularization of a certain type of dark full-bodied red. 'Good' has gotten associated with 'boozy'.
cullenking 15y ago
Sorry, there is no way you can drink 1.4 bottles of wine in 2 hours and blow a 0.07. Sorry, but this is a huge problem and the reason there are so many people who drink and drive. If people realized they were over the 0.08 limit, they probably wouldn't drive, however, many people think they are under when they are not.
- Retric 15y ago
  7 glasses of wine over 2 hours ~= 6 glasses of wine in 1 hour for a reasonably healthy person. A 140 LB male drinking 6 glasses of wine ~= BAC of approximately .16. I weigh twice that .08. However, a full stomach can significantly delay the amount of time to takes alcohol to enter the blood stream. Not that I would actually drive like this, I do these calculations using the 140lb model to play it safe. In a fasting individual, it is generally agreed that 10% to 20% of a dose of alcohol is absorbed from the stomach (the volume of alcohol affects the absorption) and 75% to 80% is absorbed from the small intestine. Because of this peak blood alcohol concentrations are achieved in fasting people within 0.5 to 2.0 hours, (average 0.75 - 1.35 hours depending upon dose and time of last meal) while non-fasting people exhibit peak alcohol concentrations within 1.0, and in extreme cases up to as much as 4.0 hours (average 1.06 - 2.12 hours). http://www.intox.com/t-Physiology.aspx http://www.intox.com/t-Physiology.aspx PS: Again, this assume 'standard' glass of wine many people poor more than twice that into a single cup and call it a glass. If your actually going to drive play it vary save and or drink beer with alcohol content printed on the label.
  - cullenking 15y ago
    Being 280lbs certainly helps you out :) With that much wine, the ABV makes a big difference as well. I crunched the numbers using 12% alcohol content, 35 ounces (1.4 750ml bottles), 2 hours and 280lbs to get 0.091, so still not hammered, but with 14% ABV it was over 0.122.
    - Retric 15y ago
      Sure, I prefer the 9-10% ABV side of things because they tend to be sweeter and 5ounces @ 10% = 1 standard drink equivalent so I can just use the chart. Still, I think people are pushing up the alcohol content to compensate for weighing more.