Commentary for Shabbat 153:2

אמר אביי שתי תשובות בדבר חדא דתנן והמזוג שני חלקי מים ואחד יין מן היין השירוני ועוד מים בכד ומצטרפין

Secondly, the water is in the jug and it is to combine!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the reason of our Mishnah is because with the addition of water it amounts to a rebi'ith, which is the average drink, but that by itself it is insufficient, are we to assume the addition of water that is elsewhere, as though he had carried it all out! Surely not. ');">³</span> Said Raba to him, As to what you quote, 'and as for mixed [wine], that means two parts of water and one of wine, [namely] of Sharon wine' — Sharon wine stands apart, being [exceptionally] weak. Alternatively, there it is on account of appearance,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reference there is to the colours of blood which are unclean. If it is of the colour of a two to one mixture, it is unclean; but a three to one mixture is paler, and blood of that colour is clean. ');">⁴</span>

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