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Miscellaneous
Wine Facts
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Just like with our glossary of definitions - we could go on forever... and we will. Starting tomorrow. |
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- Every state in America has a winery
- Four clusters of grapes produces one bottle of wine
- Only 257 people on Earth have earned the title: Master of Wine
- Table wines have an alcohol content between 7 and 14 percent by volume
- The largest-sized wine bottles are named after biblical kings
- White wine becomes darker in color as it ages, while red wine becomes lighter in color.
- We can thank Australia for wine in a box - developed in the 1970's
- The foot-stomping method is still used in production of many of the finest ports
- Only 20 of the 400 species of oak is used to make oak barrels for aging wine, the average tree age being 170 years
- In the 1600's, French wine makers used oil-soaked rags as stoppers instead of corks
- You can find the word vineyard(s) more than 100 times in the King James Bible
- Dionysus (one of the twelve Olympians, also known as Bacchus) was the patron deity of agriculture... who, as myth has it, squeezed the first wine from a Ampelos who was granted a second life as a vine
- Cork stoppers for wine account for 60% of all cork production
- There are approximately 20 billion bottles of wine produced worldwide each year
- Wine contains more chemical compounds than blood
- A wine that is Certified Kosher will display a label marking of either an o or a u inside of the letter p.
- Wine tannin comes from the skin and seeds and of the grape
- Wine is known as nectar of the gods, but the Sangiovese grape was actually named after a god: “Blood of Jove.”
- More than 80% of the ability to taste comes from the smell
- Full body doesn't necessarily mean intense flavor
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