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I want to indicate that in our restaurant we offer the wine in bootle (as always), but you can take cups of wine too. How to say This cups of wine? thanks.

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    Wine is sold both by the botte and by the cup/glass. –  Nov 04 '14 at 18:18
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    The standard term is "glass of wine" (*not "cup"). So if you let customers buy one glass of wine, you would say "we also sell wine by the glass"* (or "you can also buy wine by the glass" if you want phrasing closer to your question). – Peter Shor Nov 04 '14 at 18:19
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    @Josh61: A *cup of wine* sounds positively medieval to me. Right up there with cup of mead, which is/was almost three times more common than glass of mead – FumbleFingers Nov 04 '14 at 18:37
  • @FumbleFingers - I agree..but not that medieval after all. :)) https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cup+of+wine%2C+glass+of+wine&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccup%20of%20wine%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cglass%20of%20wine%3B%2Cc0 –  Nov 04 '14 at 18:40
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    @Josh61: Dunno 'bout that. The graph clearly shows a long-term decline in *cup of wine. More tellingly, look at the shift in relative* prevalence over the past few decades (essentially, during my "drinking career"! :) – FumbleFingers Nov 04 '14 at 18:45
  • You might get better answers at ell.SE – Mitch Nov 07 '14 at 20:54

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Individual servings of wine are sold by the glass, or as glasses of wine. Conventionally, we say wine is served in glasses, rather than cups, even though technically a wine glass is a type of cup. See What's the difference between “cup” and “glass”? for that topic.

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