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The list

The gap above three liters

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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"filled and labeled in quantities of even liters."

The provision

"Wine may be bottled or packed in containers of 4 liters or larger if the containers are filled and labeled in quantities of even liters (4 liters, 5 liters, 6 liters, etc.)"

So above 4 litres the rule is a pattern, not a list

Any whole number of litres, which is a much more permissive regime than the enumerated values below it.

And 3 to 4 litres is a dead zone

3 litres is the top of the list. 4 litres is the bottom of the even-litre allowance. Nothing in between is authorized as a fill.

Which catches the 1 gallon container

A US gallon is 3.785 litres, which sits inside that gap. So a gallon of wine is not an authorized quantity.

Three containers at 946.352 millilitres, which is 32 fluid ounces, and the nearest standard is 1 litre. A quart is not on the list either.

US customary volumes mostly are not

12 and 16 fluid ounces are, because they were added deliberately. 24 and 32 are not.

Which makes the quart bottle a format to think about

It can still be filled to 750 millilitres or to 500, with headspace. It cannot be filled to 946 and labeled as the fill.

Even litres above 4 is a bag-in-box regime in practice

A 4 or 5 litre container is not usually a bottle, and the even-litre rule is written for packs rather than for glass.

Nothing in our catalog reaches it

This group tops out at 946 millilitres, and the 4 litre threshold is more than four times that.

And the gap is not an oversight

The even-litre allowance begins at 4 litres by its own terms, so the space below it is a deliberate boundary rather than a drafting slip. 3 litres is where the enumerated list was chosen to stop.

Which makes the 3 litre value the ceiling for a bottle

Anything above it has to be a whole number of litres, and a whole number of litres starting at 4 is a format rather than a bottle size.

So for this shelf only the enumerated list matters

Twenty-five values, two of which our containers land on, and four containers that land between them.

References

27 CFR 4.72(a), authorized standards of fill, in the order printed: 3 liters, 2.25 liters, 1.8 liters, 1.5 liters, 1 liter, 750 milliliters, 720 milliliters, 700 milliliters, 620 milliliters, 600 milliliters, 568 milliliters, 550 milliliters, 500 milliliters, 473 milliliters, 375 milliliters, 360 milliliters, 355 milliliters, 330 milliliters, 300 milliliters, 250 milliliters, 200 milliliters, 187 milliliters, 180 milliliters, 100 milliliters, 50 milliliters. The section also provides that "Wine may be bottled or packed in containers of 4 liters or larger if the containers are filled and labeled in quantities of even liters (4 liters, 5 liters, 6 liters, etc.)", and that "The tolerances in fill are the same as are allowed by Sec. 4.37 in respect to statement of net contents on labels." law.cornell.edu
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. This group returns 105 rows: 14 containers and 91 closures, the smallest container count of any property in this library. Ten of the fourteen sit on an authorized standard of fill: three at 354.882 mL, which is the 355 mL standard, and seven at 473.176 mL, which is the 473 mL standard. Four do not: one at 709.764 mL, which misses the 700 mL standard by 9.764 mL, and three at 946.352 mL, whose nearest standard is 1 liter. 13 are glass and 1 is PET. 9 clear, 4 amber, 1 frosted clear glass. 8 glass boston rounds, 3 glass sauce bottles, 1 glass beverage bottle, 1 glass syrup bottle, 1 PET imperial bullet cosmo. Necks: 8 at 28-400, 3 at 38-400, 2 at 33-400, 1 at 28-410, all continuous thread.
Written from 27 CFR 4.72 and 4.10 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. The standards of fill regulate the quantity bottled rather than the bottle, so a non-standard container filled to a standard quantity is awkward rather than prohibited. Whether part 4 applies at all turns on the alcohol content of the product, which is not something a container catalog knows. Nothing here addresses bonded premises, formula approval, label approval, excise tax, net contents formatting, or state law. This catalog holds no crown cap, swing top, cork or champagne hood, so a sparkling product cannot be closed from it.