Is A Whole Bottle Of Wine A Lot?

I took a peek in our Wine Search database, and in the last year we’ve seen wines with the term “lot” on their label that refer to anywhere from 600 bottles to more than 160,000 bottles produced—that’s quite a lot! Sign Up for Wine Spectator’s Free Email Newsletters and stay up-to-date with all things wine.

If indeed, it was a successful unit of measurement, a full bottle of wine would not be indicative of excessive drinking.

“A lot” of wine can, of course, mean a whole bunch of it. But “lots” of wine are also known as batches. When vinifying wine, sometimes winemakers keep components separate in “lots”—either by the varietal, date picked, or from separate vineyard sections—to blend together later.

The general consensus is to make that bottle of wine last a week. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Use 2018 study, over 14 million Americans suffer from alcohol use dependency. This encompasses almost eight percent of adult males and more than four percent of adult females.