Some weeks back I tried a red blend called Magic Box, and when it was gone and I rinsed the bottle for recycling, the bottle seemed awfully heavy compared to the multitudes of 750ml bottles I\u2019ve handled down the years. The Magic Box wine was so-so and I probably won\u2019t buy it again. But man, it took a lotta glass to get from their ships to my lips.<\/p>\n
As if I didn\u2019t have anything better to do, I started setting aside empty 750ml glass bottles, not only of wine but of San Pellegrino sparkling water and Torani sugar-free coffee syrup. After accumulating six bottles, I weighed them on our digital postal scale. It\u2019s quite a spread:<\/p>\n
None of these bottles contained high-carbonation wine like champagne. The only one with any fizz at all was the Pellegrino sparkling water\u2014and that was the lightweight of the bunch. Yes, yes, I know, there\u2019s lots more fizz in champagne. Since I don\u2019t like champagne I won\u2019t be able to weigh a champagne bottle for comparison. If you have an empty champagne bottle and a postal scale, hey, weigh it and let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n
Nor did I log prices per bottle. Keep in mind that I rarely pay more than $20 for a bottle of wine. So it was all cheap-ish wine, at least by sophisticated wine-fanatic standards. I have a glass of wine with dinner, and cook with it here and there. I don\u2019t mull (heh) my wine, looking for hints of loamy forest floor or galvanized iron.<\/p>\n
Nope. Just a stray thought that triggered a question that led to a simple experiment. I\u2019ve done it before. I will do it again. Questions (even those without answers) are a goodly part of what makes life worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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