Festinha · The party calculator
How many bottles of wine per person?
Half a bottle per person who drinks, and one sparkling wine for every six people for the toast. Answer the questions below and the house does the math: how many bottles, which wines and how much it comes to per person.
The math, no fuss
A bottle of wine holds 750 ml and pours five 150 ml glasses. Half a bottle per person who drinks works out to two or three glasses over a dinner or a party, which is the average wine shops use. The house always rounds up: better to have a sealed bottle left over, waiting for the next occasion, than to run out.
For the toast the pour is smaller, so a bottle of sparkling gives six glasses. That’s why it’s one bottle for every six people.
| People who drink | Wine | Sparkling for the toast | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 bottles |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | 7 bottles |
| 20 | 10 | 4 | 14 bottles |
| 30 | 15 | 5 | 20 bottles |
| 50 | 25 | 9 | 34 bottles |
| 100 | 50 | 17 | 67 bottles |
Which wine for each occasion
Barbecue: more red, since one with firm tannin stands up to fatty meat, plus a rosé or white, well chilled, for the heat.
Fish and seafood: white and rosé. A light red works too, if that’s what the crowd likes.
Standing party, with snacks: half red, half white or rosé. The sparkling doesn’t have to wait for the toast.
Christmas and New Year’s Eve dinner: the table has a bit of everything, so it’s worth having both red and white. For the midnight toast, brut, the driest sparkling (drier even than what the label calls “dry”), goes with the whole table.
And the house rule always applies: pairing is a suggestion, not a law. If the crowd only drinks red, buy red.
Bringing a bottle?
Wine you bring is a gift: the host decides whether to open it right away or keep it. If it’s a white or a sparkling, bring it chilled, which helps in case they want to open it. Choose "I’m bringing a bottle" up top and the house suggests three.
Where the prices come from
The house doesn’t sell wine and earns nothing from these suggestions. Each bottle shows the price range the house saw on the websites of the big chains in Brazil and the month it was checked. The exact price changes by city, by chain and by week; the range tends to hold, and the house reviews it every three months. Shipping isn’t included. For finds with the price checked on a given date, see the Garimpo.