Wine Facts & Figures

Vermouth is a fortified wine flavored with herbs and quinine. It is available in both sweet and dry and gets its name from the German word “Wermut” which means wormwood, a toxic ingredient that was once used in early versions of Absinthe....

In the Middle Ages, wine was a sign of status and often used as a form of currency. Good wine; good trade. Bad wine; good trade....

Also known as a piccolo, split, or quatrino, it is a quarter-bottle of wine. Measuring in at 187 milliliters, they are often used as gift favors at weddings or for a quick glass of wine on the go....

That Hippocrates, widely considered the father of medicine, includes wine in almost every one of his recorded remedies. He used it for cooling fevers, as a diuretic, as a general antiseptic, and to help convalescence....

That in 1800BC, the ruler of Babylon issued a series of laws that was known as the Code of Hammurabi. In it, is states that anyone caught selling fraudulent wine would be put to death by drowning in a river. Don’t you think the better punishment would have been...

Agoston Haraszthy, who first started the Buena Vista Winery in 1857, brought over 100,000 vine cuttings from Europe to California back in 1861. The California legislature never paid him for his efforts, a broken promise that bankrupted the father of the California wine industry....

A standard 750ml bottle contains about 2.75 pounds of grapes, which is about 11 clusters, for a total of around 550 grapes....