Interesting that the cask sizes Nat saw are quite close to the traditional
US units, hogshead (238 L) and butt (477 L). I left those off my table
because I had assumed they were extinct. Why would the winery go to all the
trouble of using gallons when wine is sold by the liter?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nat Hager III
>>
> Interesting note - I was on an upstate NY winery tour last weekend (Seneca
> Lake - "Deck the Halls" weekend) and noticed the casks in the
> wineries were
> all metric (labeled 225L, 500L, etc). Unfortunately it looked like the
> winery record keeping (handwritten labels, etc) were still gallons.
>
> Nat
>
