Here’s some amazing Facts about Wine

While people have been enjoying drinking wine since ancient times, this practice became more popular in the fourteenth century.

Wine, an alcoholic beverage is made from fermented grape juice.

Those who drink it appreciate the pleasure and joy associated with it.

Enjoying happy moments with a glass of wine and snacks is something you would remember for all your life. 

Here are a few interesting facts about wine, some of which will surely take you by surprise…!

  

• The flavour of young wine is known as “aroma” while a mature wine’s flavour is like a “bouquet”.
• In ancient Greece, a person hosting the party would drink the wine first just to make sure it was healthy to drink and not poisoned. It was here that the popular phrase “drinking to one’s health” arose. It was in ancient Rome that Toasting started when the Romans continue to follow the Greek tradition.However, they were the people to drop a toasted bread in their wine glasses to moderate excessive acidity and undesirable tastes.
• Except for the Book of Jonah, rest of the entire Biblical Old Testament talks about the wine.
• You will be astonished to know that early Roman women were not allowed to drink wine. If their husbands found about their wine drinking, they had the liberty to kill them. In 194 B.C.,a divorce also happened due the same reason.
• Since wine tasting is all about wine smelling, women of reproductive ages are better wine testers because they have better smell sense than men.
• Highest wine consumption was recorded in the cities of California, Florida and New York of United States of America. France, Italy and Spain are three largest wine producers in the world followed by California.
• Drinking wine regularly helps you stay fit and healthy. It has also been found that drinking wine reduces the risk of gum diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and heart diseases. So, the next time you drink wine, remember it’s health benefits as well.
• While tasting wine, leave the wine in your mouth for a second or two. Then, you can either spit it out in a spittoon or swallow it. A high quality wine not only tastes good but also has a long after-taste. On the other hand, a low quality wine would have a short after-taste.
• Ripe and rich dark shades of wine such as the most golden whites, deepest & blackest reds are produced at places that have warmer climate, whereas less lush and lighter shades of wine like white wines are produced at cooler climates. Not many people know that with time white wine becomes golden and brown yellow while red wines lose their colour and turns into a brick red colour.
• The European Union has decided that any sparkling wine produced outside France cannot be labelled as “champagne”.