How dare you impugn drug dealers like that! My local dealers are lovely people, if somewhat stylistically challenged. They never even suggest that I buy more than I ask for, and generally give me a good deal.
More recently (last few decades), the alcohol in wine has gone up as a result of the influence of wine producers in hot countries such as Australia. French wine mainly used to be < 12% alcohol. But the super-fruity, 'jam-style' associated with Australia reds especially, with 14-15% alcohol, has gradually led to an increase so that a typical wine on the supermarket shelf (or pub fridge) will be in the 12-15% range rather than 11-12% of only a few decades ago. There are exceptions, e.g. a Vinho Verde may come in at <10% without being sweet, and sweeter wines are usually lower in alcohol as less has been fermented leaving the rest as residual sweetness.
Nah, at that age, wine was for glugging down. I'd just come back from France where wine was usually served in small tumblers so I thought they were just fancy designer glasses gone mad. About a year later we joined a wine club and learned all about 'nosing' the wine and letting it breathe etc. We must have drunk cases and cases, trying out the various grapes, in fact I'm sure there are still a couple of bottles at the back of the cupboard somewhere from a batch we didn't like. Sadly nowadays, two glasses and I'm likely to be sound asleep.
I think the alcohol content in wine used to be much higher than it is today, like fortified wines (port, madeira, sherry, etc). This was partly because of longer transport duration, and partly the need to store it for longer periods.
Bigger glasses are more fragile. Maybe these are all that are left? Also, harder to make by hand and more expensive... I don't think teeny glasses in museums prove much. Shoes and clothing from long ago are often tiny sizes too, they couldn't be worn by normal size people second hand. Maybe the owners said, 'Oh, not the little glasses for wine, let's use beakers!"
Boffin? In the behaviour and health research unit? Anyway - I'm sure she would say that all this prohibitionist f*nnying about prevents cancer. I wouldn't believe her, but I'm sure plenty of peer-troughers on grant-awarding bodies will...
Theresa Marteau, director of the behaviour and health research unit at Cambridge University, said her team had looked at 18th-century wine glasses at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, 19th-century wine glasses owned by Buckingham Palace, and more recent glasses in John Lewis catalogues and the evidence was clear: they had got bigger.
Shouldn't these boffins be trying to cure cancer instead of traipsing around museums and palaces reading catalogues?
Well there's still hope for us all. My mother is now 86 and is reverting to a teenager. Eats crap, drives like a maniac, plays the TV too loud, stay up all hours, has too many cats :-)
1 - It was very weak in comparison to modern beer. 2 - people were unlikely to live to 40 years old.
1. I know, I was being only slightly facetious - but people (all people) would have been drinking beer by default all day. I dislike the preachy tone of this article, so I'm poking holes in it.
2. Yes and no...life expectancy was low partly as a function of very high infant mortality. If you reached adulthood you had a life expectancy that wasn't so terrible. Some things that inhibited our life expectancy over the last century (smoking in particular) weren't a thing then either.
Leavers will claim this is a dastardly trick to encourage more European wine drinking. When all EU rules are abandoned expect even bigger glasses to elp stupify the electorate into not feeling the pain of leaving. "Heads I win, Tails you lose", is a well known Conservative mantra. More truthful than Strong and Stable.
Why go on about class in the 21st century? Is it really so important to build up artificial barriers between people in order to discriminate against them?
If you are drinking a glass of red you should have a large glass. This is not so that you that you can fill it to the brim. You have a small amount of wine in the glass and it leaves room for the bouquet. Anyone who fills the glass knows nothing about wine.
I was vey popular among local tennis club members as a teenager when I helped out at the bar during a tournament. I had never served drinks before and had no idea of the quantities, only there was a very lively atmosphere, and customers felt they were getting such good value they kept coming back for more. The club never requested my voluntary services again! :-)
Our 'normal' wine glasses are a bit of a mix but in the 200 - 300ml range and I would normally fill these to 100 - 125ml. We do have some crystal glasses, only 150ml, but they don't come out much.
But we do have a set of rather posh glasses that Mrs Tim picked up from a sale that are indeed 450ml. I think she's only ever used them to serve some posh desert in rather than wine, but anything less than a third of a bottle in there would look very mean.
Bigger wine glasses make us drink too much, says researcher
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Not if we drink beer.
Liquid tension (and your skilful wife) rule! Love your comment, but don't let her near me as I'm trying to cut me intake.
How dare you impugn drug dealers like that! My local dealers are lovely people, if somewhat stylistically challenged. They never even suggest that I buy more than I ask for, and generally give me a good deal.
The only thing I know about wine is that it is frequently overpriced.
Does a tumbler with a finger of scotch in it look mean?
That was quite a while ago (centuries).
More recently (last few decades), the alcohol in wine has gone up as a result of the influence of wine producers in hot countries such as Australia. French wine mainly used to be < 12% alcohol. But the super-fruity, 'jam-style' associated with Australia reds especially, with 14-15% alcohol, has gradually led to an increase so that a typical wine on the supermarket shelf (or pub fridge) will be in the 12-15% range rather than 11-12% of only a few decades ago. There are exceptions, e.g. a Vinho Verde may come in at <10% without being sweet, and sweeter wines are usually lower in alcohol as less has been fermented leaving the rest as residual sweetness.
Many of them die of smugness.
Nah, at that age, wine was for glugging down. I'd just come back from France where wine was usually served in small tumblers so I thought they were just fancy designer glasses gone mad. About a year later we joined a wine club and learned all about 'nosing' the wine and letting it breathe etc. We must have drunk cases and cases, trying out the various grapes, in fact I'm sure there are still a couple of bottles at the back of the cupboard somewhere from a batch we didn't like. Sadly nowadays, two glasses and I'm likely to be sound asleep.
I think the alcohol content in wine used to be much higher than it is today, like fortified wines (port, madeira, sherry, etc). This was partly because of longer transport duration, and partly the need to store it for longer periods.
Bigger glasses are more fragile. Maybe these are all that are left?
Also, harder to make by hand and more expensive... I don't think teeny glasses in museums prove much. Shoes and clothing from long ago are often tiny sizes too, they couldn't be worn by normal size people second hand.
Maybe the owners said, 'Oh, not the little glasses for wine, let's use beakers!"
Boffin? In the behaviour and health research unit? Anyway - I'm sure she would say that all this prohibitionist f*nnying about prevents cancer. I wouldn't believe her, but I'm sure plenty of peer-troughers on grant-awarding bodies will...
American West Coast IPAs over 7% AV are becoming more common.
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Am I a bad person for finding all this 'it's not our fault!!!1' stuff a little pathetic
Yes, but don't beat yourself up over it.
I thought swirling was to increase the surface area to improve the nose?
I dare you to knock back a 65ml thimble full of scotch in one go then.
'Invites'.
Those bastards!
Yeah, I hate it when my mum accidentally stabs things.
Theresa Marteau, director of the behaviour and health research unit at Cambridge University, said her team had looked at 18th-century wine glasses at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, 19th-century wine glasses owned by Buckingham Palace, and more recent glasses in John Lewis catalogues and the evidence was clear: they had got bigger.
Shouldn't these boffins be trying to cure cancer instead of traipsing around museums and palaces reading catalogues?
I also drink in 150ml quantity glasses of wine. I find it handy for working out how pissed I get as it's two units of alcohol.
Well there's still hope for us all. My mother is now 86 and is reverting to a teenager. Eats crap, drives like a maniac, plays the TV too loud, stay up all hours, has too many cats :-)
The article suggests your purchase of the glass caused the desire to drink, not that the desire to drink caused the glass
But only because we're leaving. It'd be half a litre of shite if we remained.
Make it as expensive as you like, duck. I'll brew a cheap 6.5% ale for sale on the sly and make a killing
No surprise. Like drug dealers, the drinks industry wants you to drink more and more.
Alcohol is too cheap and too widely available and police don't enfore existing laws of being drunk and incapable or being drunk and disorderly.
That's nothing, thanks to the phenomenon of liquid tension my wife can easily get 520ml of wine into a 450ml glass
I just drink it straight from the bottle. Saves washing up after.
Alors ? ....
Im more than happy to say yes
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1. I know, I was being only slightly facetious - but people (all people) would have been drinking beer by default all day. I dislike the preachy tone of this article, so I'm poking holes in it.
2. Yes and no...life expectancy was low partly as a function of very high infant mortality. If you reached adulthood you had a life expectancy that wasn't so terrible. Some things that inhibited our life expectancy over the last century (smoking in particular) weren't a thing then either.
Its called progress, idiots
Read the posters here mate.. 90 percent are champagne socialists
I'll have a pint of what you are drinking
They didn't have milliliters 300 years ago
Bit fucking obvious, eh?
Well, I'm an omnivore and believe in having a balanced diet.
Healthy foods or not, eating too much isn't good for you.
Leavers will claim this is a dastardly trick to encourage more European wine drinking. When all EU rules are abandoned expect even bigger glasses to elp stupify the electorate into not feeling the pain of leaving. "Heads I win, Tails you lose", is a well known Conservative mantra. More truthful than Strong and Stable.
Why go on about class in the 21st century? Is it really so important to build up artificial barriers between people in order to discriminate against them?
Need to step it up, can't be languishing in the vauxhall conference.
If you are drinking a glass of red you should have a large glass. This is not so that you that you can fill it to the brim. You have a small amount of wine in the glass and it leaves room for the bouquet. Anyone who fills the glass knows nothing about wine.
I was vey popular among local tennis club members as a teenager when I helped out at the bar during a tournament. I had never served drinks before and had no idea of the quantities, only there was a very lively atmosphere, and customers felt they were getting such good value they kept coming back for more. The club never requested my voluntary services again! :-)
And what's yours, Ovaltine?
8th June...
Perhaps I count days like I count glasses?
Perhaps the quality of the wine consumed plays a greater role than the quantity. Same may also go, to some extent, for food.
There's also a very strong correlation between life and death
I had to go and test this...
Our 'normal' wine glasses are a bit of a mix but in the 200 - 300ml range and I would normally fill these to 100 - 125ml. We do have some crystal glasses, only 150ml, but they don't come out much.
But we do have a set of rather posh glasses that Mrs Tim picked up from a sale that are indeed 450ml. I think she's only ever used them to serve some posh desert in rather than wine, but anything less than a third of a bottle in there would look very mean.
So maybe there is something in this.
50cl for what?
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