Not sure I have any “350s” but according to CT, there are 252 half bottles (375s) in my cellar. I do not, alas, have a spouse or partner.
Fixed. Thank you.
Agreed a bottle is a bottle. You don’t open a magnum, poor half of it out to drink, put the cork back in it and come back and drink the rest in a few years.
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You also don’t open it just for yourself of an evening.
Well not always but sometimes 
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Really?
I certainly have. I just haven’t finished it that night. Sometimes if Jonathan is out of town, I open a magnum on Fri night and that’s what I drink for the weekend. One bottle in, one bottle out.
I don’t have many magnums and while I don’t do it, I could. It’s not unusual for me to open two bottles of wine and get through most of them on a night. I decide to stay in and make myself dinner. I only drink once or twice a week but when I do, I take it seriously.
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Sarah, that’s not of an evening. Not different than drinking 2 bottles over 3 nights.
David, you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din. On my best day, I couldn’t drink a liter and a half on my own in one day. Yay
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I was talking about a night not a full day. In a full day, no problem drinking two
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Since when does it matter when you finish it? Many people open a 750 and drink it over several days. Would you say they aren’t opening a bottle “of an evening” unless they finish every drop?
How about this - lots of people ask how many bottles I have in my cellar. No one asks how many fluid ounces.
Or this - I bet everyone who joined this thread joined it to reduce bottle count, and didn’t ever think about fluid volume.
All in good fun - do what you want. I think it’s pretty obviuos that, in general, big/small bottles are rounding errors for 99% of participants.
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Sounds right.
A bottle by any other name would smell as sweet.
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Unless it’s more than slightly corked
I experience drinking by amount, not container. The difference between a 375 and a 750 or between a 750 and a magnum is not a rounding error. If it is for you, that’s fine with me though hard for me to comprehend.
It’s a rounding error in counting for purposes of tracking reduction, not in drinking amount, because the number of times a magnum even comes up for most people is very small. What I am talking about has nothing to do with with the fact that a single magnum is twice as big a 750 - no one is disputing that. It has to do with the fact that 1 or 2 magnums (all most people buy or drink in a year, if that) is a small number compared with, say, 100 750s bought or drunk in a year.
So the rounding error I refer to is the number of magnums or halves as compared to number of 750s purchased and consumed. Most people on this board, as evidenced by many past threads on the subject, have a very small number of mags/halves compared to 750s. My point is that, for this thread, when tracking bottles in vs bottles out to get to overall reduction/increase, a half or a magnum added or subtracted only comes up a small number of times, if at all. So it doesn’t matter if you call a half 0.5 vs 1 or a magnum 2 vs 1 because it won’treally impact most people’s monthly or yearly results. If I buy 200 bottles a year and drink 100 bottles a year, my number is +100 for the year. If one of those purchased was a magnum, and I count it as 2 in, then my result for the year is +101 - not signficant.
I only go into this because I don’t see why it’s hard to comprehend, so I think perhaps you’re thinking about it in a different way.
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I am so sorry—
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Lol. You’re right - all done here! Let’s move along (note to self), and get back to counting bottles in whatever way each of us sees fit.
I’ve managed to drop 100 or so in the last 6 months. Down to ~ 4200. Haven’t been drinking ore, just buying less.
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If your buying and consumption ratio of different bottle sizes is the same, it doesn’t even matter how you count.
People counting by ounce, aka bottle size, are quitters. Consumption is alcohol constrained, so counting by alcohol equivalent volume is the only way to go. Your port bottle should count as a mag.
Or you could be normal and count bottles.
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It would be a rounding error for me, as well. But you and I are not everybody. This started when Robert wanted an acquisition of six 375s counted as 3 bottles. The dispute for him is not a rounding error and would be less of one if he habitually buys halves. Maureen, who originally ruled against him, attests to having 252 halves, a not insignificant number. I believe Neal Mollen buys a lot of halves because he doesn’t drink a 750 in a day (though if he reads this he can correct me). I don’t care how you count your cellar. But I do think you should recognize that not everybody’s cellar looks like ours.