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00:00 You've probably noticed, wine bottles are 75cl, not 1L.
00:05 But where does this exception come from?
00:06 To find the explanation, we have to go back to the 19th century,
00:10 when the British were passionate about French wine,
00:13 especially Bordeaux.
00:14 At the time, the size of the bottles was arbitrary,
00:17 but this freedom caused real difficulties to the merchants exporting wine from other regions.
00:22 To standardize transport, 75cl bottles were chosen
00:27 so that the 6 bottles were equivalent to 1 gallon of Turon,
00:30 according to the Anglo-Saxon unit of measurement.
00:32 This is why the wine boxes are made up of 6 units.
00:36 This tradition remained even after the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union.
00:41 (upbeat music)