Wine bottles tell you a lot about its contents. In the past, heavy bottles usually denoted high quality wine. That was before sustainability percolated into the philosophy of making wine.

If you can't read wine labels (yet), start with the shape of the bottle. Karla Walsh is a Des Moines, Iowa-based lifestyle writer with more than 15 years of journalism experience. Visiting ...

All of this poses a complicated question: how many glasses of wine are there in one bottle? A standard wine bottle contains 750 milliliters of liquid, which translates to 25.361 ounces.