tonneau
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A volume measurement that was once used in BORDEAUX for selling wine. A tonneau is equal to 900 liters (about 238 gallons), which represents the capacity of four French BARRIQUES (225 liters each). Although the tonneau isn’t a real barrel or container, it was an old method for pricing wine. It was intially equivalent to 96 cases of wine, a figure that was adjusted to 100 cases in 1977. Today, however, most Bordeaux CHÂTEAUX price their wine by the bottle, not the tonneau.
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1995 based on THE WINE LOVER'S COMPANION,
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