Sensible weeknight dinner with a friend? Solo treat alone? Sharing with a partner? For all these situations and more, there's the half bottle
When it comes to wine, fun is in the eye of the beholder. There is a right bottle for every moment, every mood and emotion, from classy pinky-up adult drinking to trendy rolled-ciggy natural wine glugging to inviting Carlo Rossi to the party. But perhaps underrated are the quieter times, when drinking a small amount of something really unique and interesting is the right call.
A standard bottle of wine weighs in at 750 milliliters, and a half-bottle is 375 milliliters, or exactly half of that, meaning the bottle is smaller, the volume of wine inside is smaller, and even the cute little cork is smaller. They reach drinking maturity faster than standard bottles , and many of the world’s great winemakers gladly offer them as an option. Yet many people instead tend to go gaga over magnums, which are big burly 1.
Magnums are great, don’t get me wrong, but all this volume-centric crushing suggests something curious to me about an obsession with status and ego and size. By comparison there is very little in the way of half-bottle hype, which is why I think they’re so great for drinkers: They represent an underappreciated asset, and offer relative bargains up and down the wine price chain.
Finding these bottles can be as simple as visiting your favorite local wine shop and chatting up the staff, or searching online using terms like “375” or “half-bottle.” I think it’s an especially effective way to explore the depths of the vintage wine world, and online auction sites like
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