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Flying a lot around Europe I'm always surprised by how full the British side of things fills a wineglass :-) 125 ml is normal in the majority of places, 180 ml is a British glass of wine. The article is from the UK...

But both 125 and 180 ml servings are considerably less than the size of the glass, so the article title is at best clickbaity. The glass got bigger but nobody is pouring 7x as much wine per serving as before.

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I think wine glasses became bigger to let the wine breathe and exposing as much surface as possible to air. Same logic as wine decanters.

And also in the UK, they generally pour your wine glass up to the top (no idea why) whereas in France it's always served with about a 1/4 of the glass.

Weird, I haven't been to those places

Most places (bars), they fill a standard measure and pour that onto the glass, which fill it up to the aforementioned 1/4th of the glass

Or they give you a standard small wine bottle

That depends on the quality of the place.

An average pub might choose these glasses with the legal markings at 125, 175 and 250mL, which probably makes the 250mL serving seem quite full.

A nicer place will have larger glasses, or serve the smaller amount.

http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?ID=21754&catI...

I've mostly been to cheaper places so that would explain it!

In the U.S. it’s kind of a joke. Bartenders will tease that a typical globe can in fact hold 20oz of wine, almost an entire bottle. You might not think so looking at it. So when you ask for a “half glass”, it’s a joke.

But very few would actually pour 20oz. The globe is designed to be filled only partially, to allow aeration.

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