Back when I was a (very good) waiter I developed a sense of how many sips people took to drink a glass of wine. The boys and me settled on an average of about 20 sips per glass. Doing the math you get the following that agrees with my observation. A reasonable estimate of the volume of a wine sip is 7.5 ml. Therefore, a 750 ml bottle of wine will provide 100 sips. I’m sure you snobs can put back a full bottle alone over the course of a couple hours no problem. Amiright?
5 “glasses” = 1 bottle in the industry. Basically that 5th glass from the bottle is the profit off that bottle. Restaurants take the price of the bottle and divide by 4 to get an idea of the price per glass to charge.
Anyway, if you are disciplined with your sips, you could comfortably SWALLOW every sample at a tasting with 100 bottles.
Quick note: the more wine people drink, the bigger the sips get.
Talked to a Napa Guide about the big tasting events.
He said that he went once with the intent to spit every sample so that he could drive home (legally).
Turned out it didn’t help.
The blood vessels around the tongue absorbed the alcohol over the day.
He said he wasn’t drunk but did achieve that “fuzzy” feeling by the end of the day.
Samples for 9 hours at one venue (Coppola)