Half bottle

HALF BOTTLE
Holds 375 milliliters or 3/8 liter.
HARD
High acidity and/or tannin content leading to a sensation of dryness in the mouth, a degree of puckery-ness. Common in young red wines suitable for aging.

Half bottle of MoÃ"t Brut Imperial
MoÃ"t & Chandon is one of the world's largest manufacturers of Champagne and one of the best known champagne houses in the world.

Buy a half bottle of wine. Drink it and wash out the bottle. When you next open a regular size bottle, pour half of it immediately into the half bottle. Fill it to just below the top. Seal it and you'll have basically no air in the half bottle.

- 'Half Bottle' - Many wine retailers carry at least a small assortment of half bottles of wine, including Champagne.

Try Using A Half Bottle
Save half bottles. Pouring unused wine into a clean half bottle reduces the surface area open to the air. If the bottle is full and sealed with a clean, fresh cork, the wine inside may keep for years.

Offer more half bottles. More good wines now are available in half bottles and they are fun to have at restaurants, but many restaurants have a small, tired selection of them. These days, there's no reason not to do better.

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Added bonus: it passed the 'two night test' ; it drank nearly as well after being recorked (half bottle left, no carbonation) and poured again the next evening. Match it with pizza, pasta and marinara, mac and cheese, cured meats (i.e.

the concentration levels of noble rot by freezing the grapes, then pressing them immediately so that only the sugary liquid-which has a lower freezing point than water-will run from the press). This wine sells for about $15 for a half bottle (375ml).

These terms, which include French bottle descriptions and approximate bottle sizes are: Split, equivalent to 187 ml or 1/4 of a standard wine bottle; Half bottle, 375 ml, Magnum, 1.

A more practical way to keep your better wines for a few days is to use a pump (that we sell in our gift shop) that removes the oxygen from the bottle. Don't forget the other option of buying half bottles for those evenings when you and your ...

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