In the countryside there are still producers of bathtub raki, but the relatively low price of the legal stuff -- about $5.75 for a 70-centiliter bottle of Yeni raki -- makes bootlegging a small-scale labor of love rather than a serious business.
A standard 75-centiliter wine bottle holds just over 25 ounces.
PARTY Take a 20-centiliter bottle of Champagne and plastic glasses to the Cour Carrée, the courtyard in the western wing of the Louvre, accessible from four sides through archways.
The recall on Friday affected 700,000 20-centiliter, or 6.8 ounce, glass bottles of Fanta Pomelo for sale to restaurants, bars and cafes.
Visually resembling the marriage of a baby bottle and a hand grenade, the 75-centiliter Nomad looks vaguely as though one ought to yank the ring off with one's teeth and storm an enemy pillbox.
And it is put into unusual squat, stubby bottles, called "clavelins," that hold 62 centiliters, rather than the standard 75 centiliters.
Buy a tasting card (25, 50 or 100 euros), slip it into a high-tech Enomatic vending machine, choose from eight Bordeaux wineries, pick a size (2.5, 5 or 7.5 centiliters), put your glass under the spout, press the button and voilà: out comes a top vintage, kept at ideal temperature and free from over-oxygenation.
Consequently, each barrel yields less wine than is customary, and thus vin jaune is sold in a squat, special-size bottle called a clavelin (62 centiliters, or 21 ounces), which makes it more complicated to import into the United States.
