One of the most common asked questions about wine is how many glasses of wine are in a bottle? The answer is pretty straight forward, but there's a few different things that must be accounted for to get the right answer.
Generally speaking, with the standard wine bottle and pour, you're going to get around 5 glasses of wine out of a bottle. The typical wine bottle is 750ml, that holds around 25 liquid ounces of wine. Since the standard wine pour in a restaurant is around 5 ounces, that's where you get 5 glasses of wine per bottle.
Your wine per bottle count can change depending on the wine itself and the pour. If the wine has a higher alcohol content, your wine pour may be closer to 3-4 ounces than 5 ounces.
Remember, these are based on the typical standards when you visit a restaurant. If you're pouring your own wine from home, it would depend on how much you're pouring into your wine glass. More than likely, your home pours are going to be more than the restaurant. After all, you're not in the business of selling wine, you're in the business of enjoying it.
If you decide to pour a 10 ounce glass of wine, you’re not going to get 5 glasses of wine out of the standard bottle. You just need to make sure you're careful if you're pouring wine for others, that way you have enough wine to serve everyone.
What Are the Different Sizes of Wine Bottles?
Your standard bottle of wine is 750ml, but we want to be clear, wine bottles can come in a few different sizes.
Buying a larger bottle of wine allows you to pour more glasses, obviously the size of your wine bottle is going to factor in on how many wine glasses you can fill.
Let’s take a quick look at different wine bottles and sizes so you have an idea on how many glasses of wine you can pour for each.
- Split Bottle/Piccolo – This bottle comes in at 187.5ml, you generally see them at single serves. The bottle contains just over 6 ounces of liquid, you'll get a good single pour with it.
- Half Bottle/Demi – This bottle is half of the standard bottle of wine, it contains 375ml, this equals around 12.5 fluid ounces. You'll get around 2.5 glasses of wine using the standard 5 ounce pour.
- Standard Bottle – Your standard bottle of wine is going to contain 750ml, this equals 25 fluid ounces, which would result in 5 glasses of wine.
- Magnum Bottle – A magnum bottle of wine is 1.5L, or 50 ounces (double the standard), so you will be able to get about 10 glass of wine from this bottle.
- Double Magnum/Jeroboam– The double magnum or jeroboam are twice the size of a magnum bottle, they contain 3L, or around 100 ounces. This bottle size is going to give you around 20 glasses of wine.
- Rehoboam - Contains 4.5L of wine, average around 30 glasses of wine.
- Imperial - Contains 6L of wine, average around 40 glasses of wine.
- Salmanazar - Contains 9L of wine, average around 60 glasses of wine.
- Balthazar - Contains 12L of wine, average around 80 glasses of wine.
- Nebuchadnezzar - Contains 15L of wine, average around 100 glasses of wine.
Many men and women that consume wine regularly don't get larger bottles than the Double Magnum, this is because wine storage. It’s difficult to store larger bottles and if you open them without finishing, a lot of wine can go to waste. You always have to consider those before you buy wine.
Wine Pours
We've already discussed that your standard pour in restaurants is 5 ounces. With that being said, certain scenarios can alter that measurement.
For example, If you order a wine that has a higher or lower alcohol content, the pour could be different from the normal 5 ounces. If the alcohol content is lower, you may end up with 6-7 ounces. If the alcohol content is higher, your pour could be closer to 3-4 ounces.
Wine Tasting
For those of you that may be wine tasting, or doing a flight of wine, your pours will likely be less than 5-ounces. This is because you're going to be trying different wines out.
Your typical tasting wine pour will likely be around 2 ounces. The typical wine flight may serve you 4-5 different wines to try. This is going to equal 1.5/2.5 glasses of wine on average, but ultimately it depends on how many wines are in the flight.
In Closing
Now that you're aware of the typical wine bottle sizes and pours, it should help plan for any events that call for wine to be served. If you know many guests are going to show up, it'll allow you to figure out how many bottles of wine you're going to need.
The last thing you want is to run out of wine because you didn't order enough wine bottles or you over served the wine.
Remember, your wine starts to go bad once opened. Due to this, you want to make sure you're finishing your bottles of wine. This will ensure you’re getting the proper flavors that the winemaker intended for you to enjoy.
