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I do, often, unfortunately. It gets poured down the drain.

That's very wasteful. Use it for cooking; for that purpose it can be kept for months and even mixed with other same-color wines. There are plenty of dishes that can "pop" with just a bit of extra wine here and there.

This is why I avoid buying beer in growlers. My wife and I just don't drink enough to kill a bottle before it's done. If I have friends over, it goes fast, but that's not really a thing right now.

They do make cans of wine... I know it's a crazy idea, but my friend who likes wine loves the single serving size.

In Oregon at least yes. https://www.cannedoregon.com/

Pretty sure that isn't the only brand I have seen.

Huh. I didn't realize this was a local/ Oregon thing and had assumed it was country-wide.

Bag-in-box style of containers are pretty good regarding oxydation. Up to 6 weeks after opening it says on the label.

A bottle is obviously better long term.

There's perfectly good bagged wine in France, but they get pretty bad rep in other countries, it's often terrible wine in these boxes sadly

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.

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.

That's a very cool piece of useless trivia. Thanks.

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.

It is more about the pulmonary strength needed to start the bubble in sufficent glass for the bottle size.

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.

Sounds like something you should aspire to :)

I can drink a bottle myself lunch to bed on a weekend, but not every weekend.

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