Your Daily Facts about Wine
The average life of a vine is 40 years, but with no disease and temperate weather, vines can live to up to 100 years
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Champagne and Beaujolais grapes are all required to be tended to by hand
Calories, calories! The average glass of red contains about 110 calories, while a glass of white has about 104.
The foot-stomping method is still used in production of many of the finest ports
Gamay is the only grape that is allowed to be grown by the AOC in Beaujolais
The going rate for an acre of a vineyard in the Napa Valley is over $100,000
Only 20 of the 400 species of oak is used to make oak barrels for aging wine, the average tree age being 170 years
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
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
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
To speed up the chilling process, place 2 T. of Kosher salt in the ice bucket
The “Noble” Grapes of Bordeaux:
+ White: Muscadelle, Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon, and Ugni Blanc
+ Red: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, and Petit Verdot
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
The celebration party for the 55 drafters of the U.S. Constitution had 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of port, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 beers and seven bowls of alcohol punch large enough that “ducks could swim in them.”
Wine is mentioned 521 times in the Bible.
Oenophobia is an intense fear or hatred of wine.