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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.”

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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