how far does a bottle of champagne go?

pinkmum2010

Hi

I would really like champagne for my toast and was wondering how many glasses a 75cl bottle would do? i know with wine you're looking at about 3 glasses per bottle but with flutes being thinner i thought a bottle might do 4 or 5 glasses or am i way off?

poddle911

Yep, you could definitely do 4 or 5. In bars, the standard champagne glass measure is 125 ml which is 6 glasses

pinkteapot

Most flutes are 100 or 125ml and you can half-fill them as champagne fizzes up so much, so you'll easily get 6-7 glasses from a bottle.

We had sparkling wine and our venue (a nice place) didn't even offer champagne on the list of options, I guess due to cost. I'm sure they would have done it if we'd asked but to be honest, very few people at the wedding will notice if they're drinking sparkling wine or champagne. Do some blind taste-testing of a few to see if you can tell them apart.

iamana1ias

A bottle of wine is 6 standard glasses, not 3!!!! :eek:

shellsuit

iamana1ias wrote: »

A bottle of wine is 6 standard glasses, not 3!!!! :eek:

It's 3 in my house, I have big glasses;)

But yep, a standard size is 6 glasses of wine to the bottle and 6 flutes of champagne to the bottle.

iamana1ias

shellsuit wrote: »

It's 3 in my house, I have big glasses;)

.

That's so you can swirl the wine - you don't fill them! :rotfl:

shellsuit

iamana1ias wrote: »

That's so you can swirl the wine - you don't fill them! :rotfl:

I don't have time to swirl!

Fill it up and down the hatch it goes!

Bride2be24

you would probably get 5 generous servings or 6 if assuming a half-full flute.

iamana1ias

A bottle (of wine or fizz) will do 6 standard glasses. If you give people a slightly smaller glass you'll get 8 or 9 from a bottle. It's the serving size, not the glass size that matters!

pinkmum2010

I need to buy smaller wine glasses lol , I estimated my wine at 4 glasses per bottle with 3 bottles per table of 8 with 9 tables total, i might go with sparkling wine as a case from M&S for example is 120 qud and i could get a case of sparkling for £40-50,

pinkteapot

Champagne is like wine - you can get good ones and bad ones. A good sparkling wine would be nicer than a bad champagne anyway. As I said, I'd go with sparkling wine personally but you could always buy one bottle of each and see which you prefer and if the extra cost is worth it... And that way you get to drink two bottles of bubbly. :rotfl:

These days, few pubs/restaurants get 6 glasses out of a bottle of wine. 6 glasses would be 125ml glasses and most places now do a standard glass as 175ml (4 per bottle) or a large glass at 250ml (3 per bottle).