How many oz.'s in a 9 oz. wine glass?

[911 Rod]

Stupid question right?
Went for dinner at Moxies and I wanted some wine.
Looking at he wine menu the per oz. cost is the same for 6 oz., 9 oz. or a bottle.
My wife wants a drink, so I order a 9 oz.
The glass comes and I look at it say to myself, myself, if this is 9 oz.'s then you could almost fit a whole bottle in this glass.
Are restaurants held accountable for their wine pours?
Next it will be a bottle and a cab home. lol

[GH85Carrera]

I would not put it past some drunk to measure the volume, and sue if it was just 8 oz.

I have never in my life had a sip of wine and thought, yum, that tastes good. Often I have tasted a beer said yum to myself! I just gave up on wine long ago.

Some of my friends have a wine cellar, and a large collection of wine. They ask if I want a glass of wine, and I just politely decline. My wife can have 1/2 a glass of wine and her face looks like she has spent the day in the sun, and she gets a splinting headache. No wine for her.

[wdfifteen]

What kind of wine was it? Red wines are served in glasses with enough air above the wine for the wine to "breath." The wine typically would not fill more than 1/3 of the glass. Nine ounces of wine would require one heck of a big glass.
White wines don't need to breath so much, so the fill the glass more.

[unclebilly]

One of the last PCA dinners I attended had a member complaining that the venue didn’t use proper champagne glasses…

I regret sitting at that table. It was a long week that evening…

[Steve Carlton]

I bring some masking tape with me when I go out. Then I carefully put a tape line to mark where the line in the glass the wine came to. Quickly guzzle the wine and pull out my small can of tomato juice with the matching volume, in this case 9 oz. Pour it in and see if it makes it to the line or not.

Then I pull off the tape and complain that the wine has turned and get a fresh glass.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

What kind of wine was it? Red wines are served in glasses with enough air above the wine for the wine to "breath." The wine typically would not fill more than 1/3 of the glass. Nine ounces of wine would require one heck of a big glass.
White wines don't need to breath so much, so the fill the glass more.

This.

And yes, the correct glass makes a difference.

I actually judge restaurants on the quality of their stemware.

It's such a simple thing to get right that when they don't it means the attention to detail is lacking throughout and you don't want to see the back of house.

[911 Rod]

So it's a 9 oz. glass and not a 9 oz. pour?
It was filled to the widest part of the glass.

[stomachmonkey]

FWIW, standard wine bottle is 750ml or just north of 25 oz so a 9 oz pour is more than 1/3rd the bottle.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

So it's a 9 oz. glass and not a 9 oz. pour?
It was filled to the widest part of the glass.

No, it's a 9 oz pour but a red wine glass needs to be closer to 30 oz in total volume for a 9 oz pour.

[Zeke]

How many 9 oz pours in a 5 liter box?

[911 Rod]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

No, it's a 9 oz pour but a red wine glass needs to be closer to 30 oz in total volume for a 9 oz pour.

They use the same glass 6 oz. and 9 oz. Definitely not a 30 oz. glass
Maybe I'm a drunk like Glen said and it was 9 oz.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Zeke

How many 9 oz pours in a 5 liter box?

Just enough.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Zeke

How many 9 oz pours in a 5 liter box?

Too many and too convenient. Had to stop buying them.

Fun fact, when you think it's empty it's not.

Pull the bladder from the box and give it a squeeze, mimimum 6 oz left.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

They use the same glass 6 oz. and 9 oz. Definitely not a 30 oz. glass
Maybe I'm a drunk like Glen said and it was 9 oz.

The diff between a 9 or 6 oz pour is either obvious or nearly indistinguishable depending on the glass. Red is 9, Yellow 6.

You just gotta trust. Your server or bartender is not trying to under pour you. Remember they work on tips and people who feel cheated don't tip well. I find they tend to over pour just a bit.

Pardon my acrylic pool cups, they were handy.

EDIT: The red wine glasses have a 26 oz capacity, the white 14.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by unclebilly

One of the last PCA dinners I attended had a member complaining that the venue didn’t use proper champagne glasses…

I regret sitting at that table. It was a long week that evening…

Some of the finer wine-focused restaurants are serving champs and sparkling wines out of smaller white wine glasses - like a Riedel Sauv Blanc varietal glass. That, and serving them a little less cold, lets the drinker get more aromas. It also of course reduces the types of glass to maintain on inventory.

I assume flutes are long and narrow to keep your nose out of the fumes and to shoot the thing back quickly so as not to really taste it. Handy for "commodity" wines but not if it's something special.

And "not the proper glass"? That's somewhere on the "precious-insufferable" spectrum. While I have my opinions and preferences - I've had some limited release grower champagnes out of plastic (or, gasp!) styro hotel room cups, sometimes even with Thai or similar takeout food.

[wilnj]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I would not put it past some drunk to measure the volume, and sue if it was just 8 oz.

Similar to the reasoning for a baker’s dozen.


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[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Too many and too convenient. Had to stop buying them.

Fun fact, when you think it's empty it's not.

Pull the bladder from the box and give it a squeeze, mimimum 6 oz left.

Reminds me of when I used to drink squeeze.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

And "not the proper glass"? That's somewhere on the "precious-insufferable" spectrum. While I have my opinions and preferences - I've had some limited release grower champagnes out of plastic (or, gasp!) styro hotel room cups, sometimes even with Thai or similar takeout food.

I'll drink the **** out of my shoe if I have to.

But the right glass makes a difference.

I love the feel of a tall broad waisted thin walled and well balanced wine glasses.

[KFC911]

Is the air above the wine in the glass any different than the air above the glass?

Glen & I would need a few beers to ponder this

[Vipergrün]

The local watering hole actually pours a "glass" of wine, as in they top it off. LOL Good for the weekend lushes. The good bartenders make mixed drinks by free-hand pouring the liquor, then add ice, then whatever mix. If a place measures the pour, or free-hands into a glass of ice while squirting soda, I'll order a beer. I assume y'all have seen the videos where the contents of a 'small' drink cup fill up a 'large' cup? Cannot stand deception.