The Size of Your Wine Glass May Affect How Much You Drink

A larger glass of wine — not the amount in the glass, but the size of the glassware itself — might make you drink more. In a new study, researchers found there was a 9.4 percent increase in wine sales (and presumably, wine consumption) when a bar switched to using larger wine glasses. There was no difference in sales when the wine glasses were standard-size compared with when they were smaller, the researchers noted in their study, published on Monday (June 6) in the journal BMC Publ