As the owner of a winery and a restaurant, I often ask to get a lot of questions about wine and about wine in general. Here are some great wine facts for you to enjoy.
1. There are 20 million hectares worldwide, the grapes are planted.
2. Among fruit crops in the world, rank number one grape in the amount of planted acres.
3 164 countries import California wines.
4. Plums were primarily fruit crop in> Napa Valley in the 1940s.
5. 30 million liters of wine were lost in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
6. On 19 August 1873, the phylloxera was discovered first in California.
7. 10,450 hectares of vineyards in Napa County were planted in the last 15 years because of the new phylloxera.
8. Further 4450 hectares of vineyards in Napa County have to be replaced.
9. It takes 4 to 5 years to harvest a commercial crop of newly planted grapeVine?
10. 10,000 species of grapes exist worldwide.
11. It costs about $ 1 per bottle to age wine in French oak barrels.
12. It costs about $ 3 per bottle to age wine in only new French oak barrels.
13. When was the first known reference to a certain wine? Answer was: Roman historian Pliny the Elder rated 121 BC as a vintage "of the highest quality."
14. How old was the wine reviewed as "?Answer: 200 years old! Pliny the Elder wrote the history of the Roman Empire around 70 AD
15. A bottle of opened wine stored in the refrigerator takes about 6 to 16 times longer than if stored at room temp.
16. There are 400 species of oak.
17. 20 of them are used by vital oak barrels.
18. 5% percent of the oak tree is suitable for producing high quality barrels.
19. The harvest in 1996 in Napa Valley was a decrease of 20% - 25%normal.
20. California, New York and Florida are the three U.S. states in terms of wine consumption.
21. 58% share of legal age Americans contacted in a telephone survey Nielson drink wine.
22. 55 percent of restaurant wine sales are red wines.
23. $ 2.64 less the average cost of the grapes used to produce a $ 20 bottle of wine?
24. Dom Perignon (1638-1715), the Benedictine Abbey (at Hautvillers) butler in the rule itselfcredited with "inventing" the Champagne making process, was blind.
25. Thomas Jefferson helped the wine cellars of the first five U.S. presidents and was sometimes very fine Bordeaux and Madeira.
26. To prevent a sparkling wine from foaming out of the glass, pour one ounces, which will resolve quickly. Pour the rest of the service in this starter will not foam as much.
27. Old wine almost never turns to vinegar. It spoiled byOxidation.
28. In Egypt, King Tut's (c. 1300 BC), drank beer and the commoners of the upper class drank wine.
29. It is the very slow interaction of oxygen and wine that produces the changes observed in aging wine. It is believed that wine ages more slowly in larger bottles, as there is less oxygen per volume of wine in larger bottles. Rapid oxidation, as with a leaky cork, wine spoils.
30. Before the harvest, the canopyLeaves at the tip of the vine is often cut away to reduce exposure to the sun and the speed dramatically increases.
We hope you enjoyed these facts.
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