11. Wine aficionados must have done a far too good job as it is understood that based on the number of acres planted which accounts to 20 million, wine grapes are the world’s largest fruit crop!
12. Why clink glasses before drinking a toast? It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.
13. Why store wine when newly-bottled wines are luscious? 98% of all commercially produced wine in the world is consumed within 1 week of purchase.
14. While different shades of green are the most popular colors for wine bottles aside from the clear ones, there are also yellow and brown ones.
15. A “corked wine” doesn’t mean a wine capped with cork. Corked wines are those which aroma and taste are contaminated by poor corks.
16. Oxidation is a big no-no, and only by swirling your wine, oxygen is invited into the glass, which allows the aromas to escape.
17. The most popular statue of Dionysus, Greek god of wine, has grape carvings on it.
18. Yeast to make red wine are taken naturally from the skin, while the yeast in making white wine is taken from outside sources.
19. Remember the women you saw on TV before who jump happily on grapes? Foot treading of grapes is still used in producing a small quantity of the best port wines.
20. Although red wine can only be produced from red grapes, white wine can be produced from both white and red grapes.
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