How many drinks in a bottle of wine?
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A regular 750 mL bottle holds about 5 US standard drinks at 12% alcohol and almost 6 at 13.5%. Split between two people, that’s about 2.5 to 3 drinks each.
A shared bottle feels like “a couple of glasses” each, and at home it often is two glasses each. The glasses are just bigger than a standard drink. A standard glass of wine is 5 oz at 12%, according to NIAAA, and a bottle is about 25 oz.
What we’d do
Count a shared bottle as a three-drink night for each of you. Check the % on the label, since a stronger wine adds up fast. And if you pour 5 oz glasses at home, the bottle gives you five glasses instead of four.
The count
A bottle of wine is like a pizza that comes in one box. It looks like one thing, and it’s really several servings.
| Bottle, 750 mL | Grams of alcohol | US drinks | Calories from the alcohol |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12% | 71 | 5.1 | about 500 |
| 13.5% | 79.9 | 5.7 | about 560 |
| 14.5% | 85.8 | 6.1 | about 600 |
NIAAA’s Rethinking Drinking puts a regular 750 mL bottle of table wine at 5 standard drinks. The other rows come from size and strength, and the calories are the alcohol alone, at about 7 a gram, according to MedlinePlus. Each extra point of alcohol on the label adds almost half a drink to the bottle.
How many glasses?
| Glass size | Glasses in a bottle | US drinks each, at 13.5% |
|---|---|---|
| 5 oz | 5 | 1.1 |
| 6 oz | 4, and a splash | 1.35 |
| 8 oz | 3 | 1.8 |
Same bottle, two different nights
A couple shares a bottle of 13.5% wine with dinner, two glasses each, finished at 8pm and 9pm, with bed at 11pm. That’s 2.85 US drinks each.
On our engine, a 190 lb man is mostly cleared about 1:00am. A 150 lb woman is mostly cleared about 3:10am. Same bottle, same dinner, and her drinks reach about two hours more of her sleep than his do, because the alcohol spreads through less body water.
Where a bottle sits against the lines
NIAAA counts 4 or more drinks on any day as heavy drinking for a woman, and 5 or more for a man. Half a bottle is under both lines. A whole bottle for one person is over both, at 5 to 6 drinks. A bottle a night adds up to 35 to 40 drinks a week, more than twice NIAAA’s weekly line for men.
The What’s in your glass tool counts any bottle or glass, and the calculator below shows when tonight’s share clears.
5.7 US drinks
Bottle of strong wine, 750 mL, 13.5%: 79.9 g of alcohol and about 559 calories from the alcohol alone.
When will tonight's drinks clear?
Bed at 11:00pm
Mostly cleared by 2:50am
That's about 3.8 hours of your sleep with alcohol in your blood (3.1 to 4.9 if your liver runs faster or slower).
Restaurant pour6 oz, 13.5%, 1.35 US drinks- Restaurant pour6 oz, 13.5%, 1.35 US drinks
REM: More REM lost. Your evening is 0.56 g of alcohol per kg of body weight.
The full clock, with the band, the same drinks two hours earlier and what your heart does.
4 sources
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rethinking Drinking, How Many Drinks are in Common Containers?rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, What Is A Standard Drink? Updated December 2025niaaa.nih.gov
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Drinking Levels and Patterns, updated January 2026niaaa.nih.gov
- MedlinePlus, Calories in alcoholmedlineplus.gov
