I have heard that such small glasses were a) somewhat necessary due to the difficulty of glassmaking in the 1700s, and b) not a problem when you have servants following you around keeping your glasses topped up.
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#13I have heard that such small glasses were a) somewhat necessary due to the difficulty of glassmaking in the 1700s, and b) not a problem when you have servants following you around keeping your glasses topped up.
I mean, the average person didn't exactly have servants.
Glass-making concept makes sense to me though.
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#14Back in the day a Royal Navy sailor's daily ration of beer was a gallon, or a half pint of 115 proof rum. I don't think the dainty wineglasses are a good indication of volume consumed.
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#15Are historically accurate classic size wine glasses sold today? They look classy.
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#16I have heard that such small glasses were a) somewhat necessary due to the difficulty of glassmaking in the 1700s, and b) not a problem when you have servants following you around keeping your glasses topped up.
I mean, the average person didn't exactly have servants. Glass-making concept makes sense to me though.
Perhaps the average person in the 1700s with a specific glass for wine did?
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#17This references the study showing that people eat more when using larger plates, but I think wine drinking is the one instances where those results aren't easily transferrable. Wine glasses today are usually filled to about 1/4, where (judging by the painting in the article, and my guess) glasses 1/7th the size of today's were filled to the rim.
Exactly. The photos in the article even show this. The modern glasses shown in the article clearly aren't filled with 7x1700-size servings each, otherwise they'd be drinking literally thimbles worth of wine in the 1700's.
Restaurants do tend to pour only part of a glass, usually 100-175 mL, depending on location, quality of wine, and country. However, I've seen plenty of people in a home environment pour to the top, or at least 2/3 of the glass, they're usually counting their drinks by the bottle though, rather than the glass.
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#18> These days, the average British pour of wine is 250 milliliters, “larger than the mean capacity of wine glasses available in the 1980s,” writes Marteau. Wow that’s a big pour - you expect to get 4-5 glasses of wine out of a standard 750ml bottle, potentially a little more than that if you’re ordering by the glass in a restaurant.
That's a large wine though. A standard is 175ml, large 250ml. However many places nowadays just serve large by default.
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#19Wine was probably vastly more expensive as a proportion of income in the 1700s compared to today. Makes sense that glasses would be that much smaller.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how much of the liquid/volume ratio is just due to people trying to protect their white carpet...
some anecdata - I spilled an oversized glass of red wine our carpet ina previous house and escalated my wife's 'need' for wooden floors by unknown to immediate. :-) on a side note we were much happier with the wooden floor
I hope your dog need reduced in parallel. Skating dogs are surprisingly destructive.