White Wine Drinkers Pour Bigger Servings
- 11 years ago
When white wine drinkers help themselves to a glass, it’s been found that they pour a bigger serving than drinkers of the red variety.
When white wine drinkers help themselves to a glass, it’s been found that they pour a bigger serving than drinkers of the red variety do.
In a recent study, researchers examined how well people gauged what 5 ounces, the standard serving of wine, looked like in a variety of beverage and glass scenarios.
It turned out, that some factors made it almost universally harder for those pouring to judge that.
Researchers discovered that white drinkers, who typically take 9 percent more in their clear glasses, do so because the beverage color matches that of the glass.
Participants pouring red wines into see-through vessels were better able correctly gauge the proper serving amount.
When putting liquids into glasses that were wider than usual, almost nobody involved in the study stopped at the right quantity.
On average, wider glasses ended up receiving 12 percent more of the drink.
Keeping the glass on the table while filling it helped curb the desire to overfill. Once people held the glass and poured at the same time, though, they couldn’t help themselves from adding an extra 12 percent.
When white wine drinkers help themselves to a glass, it’s been found that they pour a bigger serving than drinkers of the red variety do.
In a recent study, researchers examined how well people gauged what 5 ounces, the standard serving of wine, looked like in a variety of beverage and glass scenarios.
It turned out, that some factors made it almost universally harder for those pouring to judge that.
Researchers discovered that white drinkers, who typically take 9 percent more in their clear glasses, do so because the beverage color matches that of the glass.
Participants pouring red wines into see-through vessels were better able correctly gauge the proper serving amount.
When putting liquids into glasses that were wider than usual, almost nobody involved in the study stopped at the right quantity.
On average, wider glasses ended up receiving 12 percent more of the drink.
Keeping the glass on the table while filling it helped curb the desire to overfill. Once people held the glass and poured at the same time, though, they couldn’t help themselves from adding an extra 12 percent.