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More Fast Wine Facts
December 16, 2011 3:06 pm - Posted by Jody in Eat
With what is sure to be a holiday party filled next few weeks, show up prepared and impress your family and friends with these quick wine facts!
- The Sangiovese grape was named after a god. The name derives from the Latin sanguis Jovis, translating to “the blood of Jove.”
- Bulls blood was previously used as a fining agent.
- Australia has over 60 designated growing regions (denoted as GI- Geographical Indications).
- To prevent a sparkling wine from foaming out of the glass, pour a third of the glass and pause before filling the rest.
- In the US, when a vintage is declared on a label, 95% of the grapes must have been picked that year.
- Once home to the Wappo Indians, the name Napa Valley comes from the Wappo dialect and means plenty.
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed October as California’s wine month.
- Napa Valley was named an American Viticulture Area in 1983, making it the first AVA in California.
- Vienna is the only major city that is also a designated wine area.
- 90% of wine made in the US is made in California.
- Greece is home to more than 300 indigenous and not very well known grape varieties.
- In South Africa, wineries are referred to as wine farms
- Of more than 50 countries in Africa, only eight are wine producing
- South Africa
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Egypt
- Libya
- Zimbabwe
- Kenya
- When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in volcanic lava in 79 A.D., it also buried more than 200 wine bars.
- Muscadine is not a variation of Muscat. It is native to the United States & used as table grapes for eating and occasionally used for wine.
- Screw caps seal 93% of New Zealand wines.
- In 2008 celebrity wine sales exceeded $50 million
- Vines were originally planted in South Africa to produce wines and grapes intended to ward off scurvy amongst sailors along the spice route.
- Winemaking and grape growing in Australia directly employed 28 000 people in 2006.
- The first grape vines in Australia arrived with the first European settlers in 1788.
- There are over 112,700 hectares of vineyards in South Africa.
- Mexico is the oldest wine growing region in the Americas yet the average wine consumption per capita in Mexico is only two glasses a year.
- South Africa exports around 400 million liters of wine a year.
- Morello is the name given to the Maremmano horse’s fur and Morellino it’s the local name of Sangiovese in Tuscany’s Maremma.
- French agronomist, Michel Pouget, is to thank for delicious Argentine Malbec. He took vines over in 1868 from Medoc.
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