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20 Fun Facts About Wine!
- 1/ Wine is fat-free and cholesterol-free.
- 2/ In Japan there is a spa where you can swim in tea, coffee, and wine.
- 3/ California has more chardonnay grapes than any place in the world.
- 4/ The wreck of the Titanic holds the oldest wine cellar in the world.
- And despite the wreckage and the depth, the bottles are still intact!
- 5/ Two new studies have shown that polyphenols in wine (and chocolate!) increase blood flow and oxygen to the brain,
- boosting cognitive ability.
- The effect gets even more beneficial as you age, since there is a natural reduction in blood supply around the brain
- later in life.
- All the more reason to have a glass of ‘medicine’ and a little dessert every chance you get.
- 6/ The lip of a red wine glass is sloped inward to capture the aromas of the wine and deliver them to your nose.
- 7/ The oldest preserved bottle of wine is nearly 1700 years old and it is on display in a German museum.
- 8/ Putting ice and salt in a bucket will chill white wine or Champagne faster.
- 9/ The custom of bumping glasses with a “cheers” greeting came from old Rome where they used this method to make
- sure no one is trying to poison the other (bumping glasses makes the drink spill from one cup to the other).
- This tradition started even earlier in ancient Greece – where the host was to drink the first cup of wine to show his
- guests he does not intend to poison them.
- 10/ White wine can be made from red & white grapes.
- 11/ The smell of young wine is called an “aroma” while a more mature wine offers a more subtle “bouquet”.
- 12/ Since wine tasting is essentially wine smelling, women tend to be better wine tasters because women, particularly
- of reproductive ages, have a better sense of smell than men.
- 13/ In ancient Rome it was forbidden for women to drink wine. If a husband found his wife drinking wine he would be
- allowed, by law, to kill her.
- 14/ Poor quality soil tends to produce better wine.
- 15/ One bottle of wine contains about 1.27kg of grapes / 600 – average number of grapes.
- 16/ Intense fear or hatred of wine is called Oenophobia.
- 17/ There is more alcohol in mouthwash than wine.
- 18/ A standard glass of dry red wine contains around 110 calories for white there can be 160.
- Sweeter wine has more calories.
- 19/ Don’t keep your wine bottle standing up – this can cause the cork to dry, shrink and oxygen\air might get in the
- bottle.
- Always keep the bottles lying down!
- 20/ Beaujolais Nouveau is a fruity young red wine that is released for sale each year at the stroke of midnight on the
- third Thursday of November.
