Wine trivia

Wine has so many organic chemical compounds it is considered more complex than blood serum.

The lip of a red wine glass is sloped inward to capture the aromas of the wine and deliver them to your nose.

Cork was developed as a bottle closure in the late 17th century. It was only after this that bottles were lain down for aging, and the bottle shapes slowly changed from short and bulbous to tall and slender.

In King Tut's Egypt (around 1300 BC), the commoners drank beer and the upper class drank wine.

When Leif Ericsson landed in North America in A.D. 1001, he was so impressed by the proliferation of grapevines that he named it Vinland.

When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in volcanic lava in A.D. 79, it also buried more than 200 wine bars.

The top three U.S. wine consumption states: California, New York, and Florida.

58 percent of legal-aged Americans contacted in a Nielson phone survey indicated that they drink wine.

Red wines represent 55 percent of restaurant wine sales.

The average cost of the grapes used to produce a $20 bottle of wine is $2.64.

A bottle of opened wine stored in the refrigerator lasts 6-16 times longer than it would if stored at room temperature.

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