# Is it bad that I just bought a 4 liter bottle of wine? (lame ramble) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324 "2005-01-18T06:25:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324/1 "2005-01-18T06:25:15Z")
I am thinking yes. What struck me whilst I was shopping ever so innocently in Safeway was that I was not looking so much at the brand or vintage (not at all in fact) as I was at the fact that it was a 4 liter jug for $7. My sense of thrift kicked into gear to support my craving for alcohol. I pay $6.20 for a beer at my favorite bar downtown, and here is over a gallon of wine for the same price. I’m not an alcoholic, I’m just saving money. Still better than smoking, I suppose. Last night marked 7 days without a cigarette. I would sell my soul for an American Spirit Light stog right now. To go with my glass of wine of course. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324/2 "2005-01-18T06:45:08Z")
Not planning to drink it all in one evening I hope. But, being thrifty is not bad. Of course, if the label just says something generic like: WINE you may have made a serious mistake. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324/3 "2005-01-18T06:50:41Z")
Certainly not all in one evening. That would be a bit much, even for me. I vaguely remember it having an actual name, like “somebody & rossi”. and I think it might even be a 2001 cabsauv. So I havent made it to rock bottom yet. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324/4 "2005-01-18T06:59:17Z")
Martini & Rossi may not strictly be the bottom, but you can probably see it from where you’re sitting. Once I lived in Paris as a starving student and was buying the cheapest wine I could find. It came in a plastic 1-liter bottle with a screw-on cap. It was drinkable (barely), but when I spotted the \*clochards \*in the Metro drinking the same thing, I decided to upgrade to glass bottles. Back home, in my limited experience with wine, I find it’s best to stick to the 750cl size. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324/5 "2005-01-18T07:20:23Z")
Oh crap! I just looked at the bottle. It is a bottle of 100% grape table wine, Carlo Rossi _Paisano_. I am also supposed to refrigerate after opening. This bottle will not fit in my fridge. Unless of course I drink the 6 pack of beer that is in there. Which of course I will not do, because I am not a lush. Ah well, the ol’ apartment gets cold enough at night. I’m sure it will be fine. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324/6 "2005-01-18T07:40:06Z")
Hey, my grandfather drinks wine in the gallon jug! He’s 91, he’s confined to a wheelchair in an assisted living facility, and that glass of wine a day is one of the great pleasures in his life. (He loves it when we come, because he can use us as an excuse to drink two!) I mean, sure it’s not the best wine in the world. It’s not even the mediumest wine in the world. It is in fact rather pink. And I just can’t drink pink wine like I used to in college. But it comes in a gallon jug for practically free, and grandpa loves the stuff. 😉 It’s practically the only thing in their tiny little fridge. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-bad-that-i-just-bought-a-4-liter-bottle-of-wine-lame-ramble/285324/7 "2005-01-18T12:42:46Z")
> [@E. Thorp](#): > > Back home, in my limited experience with wine, I find it’s best to stick to the 750cl size. I think you mean 750 mL. Unless you’ve got a supplier for 7.5 litre bottles 😃 But the only thing Iwould do with a 4 litre jug is turn it into mulled win.