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Facts about Wine

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Fun Facts about Wine


Wine is one of the most frequently consumed /Alcoholic Beverages">alcoholic beverages in the world. Wine itself has a very interesting history and can be dated back as far as 8500-4000 BC when Paleolithic humans drank naturally fermented grapes from wooden bowls. Wine has evolved over time and is now something enjoyed by people worldwide. I've compiled a list of fun wine facts that you might not have known!

  • Over 20 million acres of land world wide is dedicated to grapes.

  • Grapes are the most planted fruit on the planet

  • Over 30 million gallons of wine were lost in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

  • Over 10,000 varieties of wine grapes exist on earth.

  • It costs 90 cents per bottle to age wine in a French oak barrel

  • If you were to only use new French barrels to age wine, it costs $2.50 a bottle to age the wine

  • If you open a bottle of wine then place it in the fridge, it lasts 6-16 times longer than if you left it at room temperature.

  • Only 5% of an Oak tree is actually useable when making barrels to age wine.

  • California, New York and Florida drink the most wine of all the states in the USA

  • 58% of all Americans surveyed by Neilson's drink wine

  • The average cost of grapes found in a $20 bottle of wine is $2.64

  • In King Tut's Egypt, the upper glass drank wine while the commoners drank beer. (Circa 1300 BC)

  • California produces roughly 77% of the entire US Grape Crop

  • 55% of all wine sales in US restaurants are for red wine.



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Rizzle has worked in the bar scene all over the Greater Vancouver area.  He has been a bartender, a promoter as well as a bouncer.  Rizzle enjoys sitting back on the weekends and either enjoying a cold beer or some sort of blended concoction such as a margarita.  He eventually left the bar scene to work online full time.  Aside from writing for Infobarrel, he also writes for hobbystop.net

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