Alcoholic Content of Wines

[markk]

Here's my question:

If you have a wine whose alcoholic strength is 8%, and another which is 11% - in a practical sense, what's the difference by amount of wine - in other words, how much more of the 8% wine would you have to drink to equal the alcoholic content of the 11% wine?

(I've wondered this as well with 13% wines - I won't use the word 'whopping' -versus 11%, but I happen to be sipping an 8% wine at the moment, and thought to ask. How much more would I have to drink to get the same alcohol as an 11-percenter?

THANKS

[Walter Moar]

Here's my question:

If you have a wine whose alcoholic strength is 8%, and another which is 11% - in a practical sense, what's the difference by amount of wine - in other words, how much more of the 8% wine would you have to drink to equal the alcoholic content of the 11% wine?

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You'd have to drink 11/8 (1.375) as much of an 8% wine to equal the alcohol in an 11% wine. So if you have 100ml of 11% wine, the same amount of alcohol would be found in 137.5ml of 8% wine. For the metric impaired, it of course works the same: 10oz of 11% wine would be the same alcohol as 13.75oz of 8% wine.