Simple Meals and Luncheons. At one-course meals, you can serve two glasses of wine or a total of eight ounces per person (approximately 240 ml). At luncheons, you can serve up to a glass and a half of table wine. This adds up to four to six ounces (120-175 ml) per person.
In the United States, the standard serving is a 5 ounce glass of wine (or 147 mL). This means that the standard bottle holds five 5-ounce glasses of wine. A magnum bottle holds 10 glasses of wine.
In an average glass of white wine 150ml (11.5% alcohol) served at a restaurant you're consuming 1.4 standard drinks.
Size: 500 ml, holds ⅔ standard bottle or 3 glasses of wine.
A standard bottle contains 750 ml, and a glass is 125 ml; so drinking an entire bottle of wine is equivalent to six glasses per day. A glass of wine with an 11% ABV is 1.4 units.
Demi or Half Bottle – This bottle is exactly half of a standard bottle of wine coming in at 375ml or a little more than 12.5 fluid ounces, which will net you about 2.5 glasses of wine at the standard 5-ounce pour.
While the consensus on wine is polarizing, researchers do say that drinking it in moderation is not bad for you. In general, moderate wine consumption for healthy adults means up to one drink a day for women and up to two drinks a day for men. One drink is equal to five fluid ounces (148 mL) of wine.
Too much: More than three glasses a day (375ml +)
“You're raising your risk of heart disease, liver cirrhosis, cancer and stroke.” So put the wine list down, pause your 'hilarious' BBQ anecdote and look at the menu. “For improving your health it's crucial to drink wine with food,” says Corder.
Controlling Your Wine Consumption
Ultimately, it is not encouraged to consume a bottle of wine within a night. However, it can be beneficial to drink slightly less than one full glass per day.
Serving size vs standard drink size
A serving of alcohol in a pub or club can be larger than a 'standard' drink, for example a standard drink of wine is 100ml but a typical serve may be 150ml.
Even though wine bottle sizes vary, there is a standard size. A standard bottle of wine contains 750 milliliters or 25.4 ounces—so how much should you pour? Five ounces is a standard wine pour, no matter if the wine is red or white, mildly alcoholic or boozy.
Pubs generally sell wine in standard glasses (175ml) or large glasses (250ml) so one bottle is the equivalent of 3 large glasses or 4 and a bit 'standard' glasses.
The USDA defines 1 serving of wine as 5 ounces (or about 150ml), which means there are about five glasses' worth of wine in a 750ml bottle.
Do you know what a standard drink looks like? In Australia, a standard drink is any drink containing 10 grams of alcohol, regardless of container size or alcohol type (e.g beer, wine, spirit).
Experts say a a good maximum amount of wine for women would be a 5 oz glass of wine, and for men two 5 oz glasses of wine, no more than several times a week. Experts strongly advise women against having more than 3 drinks of wine per day, and for men, 4 drinks of wine per day.
Drinking a bottle of wine a day is undoubtedly hazardous drinking. It puts you at risk of significant health issues but does not necessarily mean you are an alcoholic.
It can take only 2 glasses of wine to get you drunk, depending on various tolerance factors and the kind of wine you're drinking. The higher the ABV, the less wine you'll need to drink to start feeling alcohol's effects and the greater effect it'll have on your blood alcohol content (BAC).
Keep a drinking diary: Many people find they are well within safe levels (75 percent of the women in our poll reported having fewer than four drinks per week). Does this mean that if you drink two glasses of wine a night you're a little bit alcoholic? Absolutely not. People metabolize alcohol differently.
In general, you shouldn't drink alcohol every single day. However, according to the alcohol consumption guidelines, it's safe for women to drink one glass of wine per day and safe for men to drink two glasses of wine per day. One glass is considered to be 5oz at 12% ABV.
The Standard Wine Bottle Size
The half/demi bottle is 375 ml or approximately half the size of a standard bottle and is ideal for anyone who wants to buy a more extensive variety of drinks in smaller sizes as a sampler option.
For example, a 375ml stubby of full-strength beer is usually around 1.4 standard drinks.