The standard capacity of a wine bottle is 750ml, but most whiskey bottles are 700ml. Let me talk about why the wine bottle is 750ml. Glassblowing was born in ancient Rome, but because glass bottles were expensive at that time, most alcoholic beverages, including whiskey and wine, were stored in clay jars. Until the popularization of cork technology in the 18th century, wine led the trend of glass bottle bottling. However, at that time, most wine bottles had a capacity of 600-800ml, which was exactly the approximate capacity that workers could blow out in one breath. The birth of the standard bottle of wine is mainly because a barrel (225L of Bordeaux oak barrel) of wine can just be packed into 750ml * 300 bottles, 12 bottles per box, exactly 25 boxes.
The Balvenie whiskey in 1970, 750ml capacity Why did the whiskey change from 750ml to 700ml again? The reason is very simple – increase the price. Under the premise of keeping the price unchanged, the capacity has been reduced, which means that the price of wine per unit volume has also increased (this is a normal business operation, and we have nothing to blame). In 1993, the European Union issued regulations to determine 700ml as the standard capacity (how much capacity to bottle is a matter for the winery, you can use the standard capacity or choose other capacities. But there must be more people who choose the standard capacity to bottle , because the cost of standard bottles produced on a large scale is lower), so most whiskey bottles in the world have become 700ml.
