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A 750ml time capsule that's been the same size since the lungs of a glassblower.
means A glass container, typically holding 750ml, used to store and age wine until you decide it's o'clock somewhere.
from "Wine" descends from Old English win, borrowed from Latin vinum, which spread across Europe and lives on in the French vin and Italian vino. "Bottle" comes through Old French boteille from Late Latin butticula, a diminutive of buttis, "cask" — so a bottle is literally a "little cask." The familiar 750ml size has a practical lore: glass bottles were once blown by lung power, and roughly 700–800ml is about what a single glassblower could exhale into shape in one breath — though that tidy story is more rule-of-thumb than documented fact.
- Bottle size
- 750ml roughly matched a glassblower's single breath
- Punt purpose
- That bottom dimple adds strength and traps sediment
- Heavy lie
- Thicker glass signals luxury, not better wine
- Color code
- Green tint shields wine from light-driven spoilage
- Cork science
- A good cork can seal for decades while breathing