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 f

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'.