Wineglass is 7 times bigger than in the past

byJamie Street

Since it was an environment where wastewater treatment etc. was not well prepared in the past, water was dirty, and alcohol was part of life as there were areas where it is commonplace to drink alcohol for hydration. Although wine, which is a type of such alcohol, is said to have been brewed since the Neolithic Age,Latest researchAccording to the fact that the size of the wine glass for drinking wine is gradually increasing, perhaps modern people may be more likely to drink than those of ancient times.

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The Behavior and Health Research UnitAccording to Teresa Marto, a director of BHRU, who published research papers investigating the size of drinking glasses, the history of wines in the UK seems to have been with the wealthy. In an era when ancient Rome part of the British as a colony, we established a vineyard on the mainland of Britain, but the UK was a bit too cold to make wine. From such a background, in England it seems that everyone was drinking beer and spirits rather than wine until the late 20th century. However, since wine has become popular in Britain in the 1960s, wine can be easily obtained in supermarkets, from which many people will drink wine even in the UK.

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In order to investigate how consumption of wine has changed, Marthe et al. Research group measured the size of wine glass for 300 years. The research group has investigated various things from those exhibited in museums to those sold by glass manufacturers and eBay, and it seems that they succeeded in collecting data on a total of 411 kinds of glasses. The average capacity is calculated separately for each age group of glasses.

As a result of investigating the date and capacity of the wine glasses, it became clear that the size of the wine glasses has become huge year by year. One of the reasons for the change is predicted to be the same as "Why are glasses in the middle of the 18th century small?" It is said that taxes for glassware began to be imposed from 1746. This tax has been abolished during the Industrial Revolution a century later, after that glass products such as wine glasses seem to be enormous.

It is a wineglass that has steadily expanded its size since the Industrial Revolution until the 1900s, but in 2000 the average size of the wine glass reached 300 ml. About the growing trend of wineglasses from the 1700s to the 2000s Mr. Marto also cites wine becoming popular in the UK. A large wine glass has the effect of making the scent of wine more enjoyable by keeping the scent. More and more wine glasses are required in the American glass products market, and there is a similar tendency in the UK. The average volume of recent British wine glasses seems to be 250 ml, "It is larger than the average capacity of wineglasses that can be obtained in the 1980s," Martoul says.

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Also, there is a possibility that big glasses may have influenced "how much to drunk".Past study, It is shown that if the average tableware size is large, the amount of food and drink consumed as a result will also increase. In addition, we have found that you can increase sales by about 10% on average by using larger glasses when serving wine at a bar etc.

Marteau suggests that regulators concerned about increasing drinking may encourage the use of smaller wine glasses.