Over here wine and liquor MUST be sold in rational metric sizes. Occasionally vendors of other products such as non-alcoholic wine, cocktail mixers, vinegar, etc, find the available wine and liquor bottle sizes convenient, and hence those products become metric.
With a proliferation of new packaging styles in wine, all required to be metric, I would hope that spills over into other areas. Nat -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry Simpson Sent: Wednesday, 2004 May 12 14:44 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:29761] RE: Calif. wineries go outside the bottle > Of Nat Hager III >Could be a positive development, by proliferating new packaging styles >in the wine industry which could spill over into other areas. >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4952871/ >Now I know you wine connoisseurs would cry. <g> I occasionally buy 3 litre boxes of wine here in the UK. The box has a bag inside and a tap at the bottom. As the wine goes out, the bag gets smaller so air cannot rush in to spoil the wine. So it lasts for many days and is very appropriate for people who just want one or two glassfuls a day. I will admit to having bought 1 litre plastic bottles of wine in France. The EU is debating pack size regulations. They specifically suggest that wine that is not in glass containers would be deregulated to allow any size. http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/prepack/impacts_alternatives/en_imp acts .pdf
