Did You Know…….. Wine Fact #19
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....
Did You Know …… Wine Fact #18
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...
Did You Know…… Wine Fact #17
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....
How many grapes are in any given bottle of wine?
A standard 750ml bottle contains about 2.75 pounds of grapes, which is about 11 clusters, for a total of around 550 grapes....
Did You Know……. Wine Fact #16
In the Bordeaux region of France, Margaux is the largest of its regions within the appellation while Pomerol is the smallest. The Graves region is known to be the oldest. Others include Pauilliac, Pessac-Leognan, St. Emillion and Medoc, still yet many other sub-regions are included throughout the entire appellation....
Did You Know ……. Wine Fact #15
We Americans drink more wine on Thanksgiving Day than any other day of the year. Research shows that 63% choose wine as their holiday beverage of choice. Red wine is prefered by the majority of tasters with white wine and rose a distant second. Come to think of it,...
Did You Know………. Wine Fact #14
That the best way to preserve an open bottle of champagne, or sparkling, is with a “bouchon”. Bouchon, which is French for stopper, is a metal cap, that when clamped down on the bottle neck, will not let gas escape any further, helping to preserve your favorite bubbly for...
How many grape varieties are permitted in the blending of the French Rhone wine Chateauneuf du Pape?
As of 2020, the lucky number is 18. They include red grapes Cinsault, Counoise, Grenache Noir, Mourvèdre, Muscardin, Piquepoul Noir, Syrah, Terret Noir, and Vaccarèse (Brun Argenté). White and pink varieties include Bourboulenc, Clairette Blanche, Clairette Rose, Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris, Picardan, Piquepoul Blanc, Piquepoul Gris, and Roussanne. In 1923, French regulators declared that 10 different varietals could be used in the making of Chatauneuf du Pape. That...
What do wine and marriage have in common?
In ancient Babylon, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the Mead, a honey fermented wine, he could drink for a month after the wedding ceremony. Because of the lunar or moon based calendar, this period of free mead was known as “honey month”, or more commonly...
What is Saperavi?
It is a dark skinned red grape that is the specialty varietal from the Republic of Georgia. Grown in the Alazani Valley on the edge of the Caucasus Mountains, archaeologists have found proof that wine has been produced in this region for over 7 millennia. Wine from this grape...