Swap quantity for quality with great wines in smaller sizes
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The comedian Ellen DeGeneres once quipped, “I never see the glass as half empty – I drink out of the bottle.” I can imagine Ms DeGeneres buying wine in half bottles; it’s a good size for a straw. But the prospect of “small format” (as it’s known in the trade) makes some recoil in horror.
Despite drinking almost nothing – I’m talking about a couple who can make a normal-sized bottle of wine last more than three days – my parents are part of this aghast group. “I like having leftovers,” says my mum. Well, I like drinking wine before it oxidises and acquires a whiff of acetaldehyde, but to each his own.