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The origin of the 750ml wine bottle

Feuerheerd's 2017 Douro Reserva Why wine bottles are generally 750 ml (75 cl) and not one liter (1,000 ml). Where does this sizing is coming from? Round figures dominate this world; most of the alcohol bottles are the only ones with a capacity of 750 ml.: Why is this?  Why does a bottle of wine not contain an entire liter? Why not settle with half-liter bottles? The most common wine bottle capacity was normalized in the 19th century, and since then, this bottle sie is now used, not just for the wine, almost for all bottled liquids. There are the craziest explanations for this fact, such as: The pulmonary capacity of a glassmaker; The production of glass bottles was an artisan process until it was industrialized in the eighteenth century. During the production process, after heating and liquify the glass, blowing air thru a tube was to create and shape the bottle as we know it. The blowing was continuously, and as a result of the theoretical human lungs capacity we ended up with +/-

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