![]() ![]() The butt (from the medieval French and Italian botte) or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints (126 gallons). 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used. It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. The tun ( Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey. Examples include a hogshead of 300 L (66 imp gal 79 US gal), a barrique of 220 L (48 imp gal 58 US gal) (Bordeaux), a barrel of 225 L (49 imp gal 59 US gal) (Australia), a barrel of 230 L (51 imp gal 61 US gal) (Burgundy) and a puncheon of 465 L (102 imp gal 123 US gal). The major wine producing countries use barrels extensively and have developed standards at variance with the traditional English volumes that are commonly used in the wine and wine cooperage industries. In the United Kingdom and its colonies the units were redefined with the introduction of the imperial system whilst the Queen Anne wine gallon was adopted as the standard US liquid gallon. ![]() The various units were historically defined in terms of the wine gallon so varied according to the definition of the gallon until the adoption of the Queen Anne wine gallon in 1707. For beer and ale units of the same, see English brewery cask units.Ĭapacities of wine casks were formerly measured and standardised according to a specific system of English units. This article is about historic units of volume measurement for wine in England until 1824 and later under the imperial and US customary systems. ![]()
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