Wine'ing Wednesdays: Trivia For Your Next Tasting
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Champagne Toppers – A bar bet you are guaranteed to win!
There are only a few companies that manufacture the ‘muselets’ [(the wire cage’ that tops champagne)] (http://www.kenswineguide.com/wine.php?word=91). Each cage is sealed by twisting the wire exactly 3 full turns and therefore can be removed by exactly 6 half turns any and every time.
[Clinking Custom] (http://www.uncork.biz/winetrivia.htm)
“It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then just touch or clink the host's glass with his own.”
Who’s drinking?
The [top 3 wine consuming states] (http://www.beekmanwine.com/factsquotes.htm) are California, New York and Florida. The [top 3 producing states] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wine) are California, Oregon and New York. The [top 3 wine consuming countries] (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/foo_win_con-food-wine-consumption) per capita are Italy, France and Switzerland (U.S. is ranked #10).
[Women & Wine] (http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/trends-leading-ladies-sex-and-the-sommelier) The first American women to receive the title ‘Master Sommelier’ by England’s Court of Master Sommeliers was [Madeline Triffon] (http://www.starchefs.com/short_wine_list/html/biography_02.html) in 1987 who was working at Detroit's London Chop House. It wasn’t until 1992 a second American women would be honored with the same title.
[Wine By the Numbers] (http://www.winetoursoftheworld.com/vintner-info/wine-faqs)
One standard acre of grapevines
=Produces 5 tons of grapes
=3,985 bottles of wine
=797 gallons of wine
=15,940 glasses of wine
=13.5 barrels of wine
One barrel of wine
=1,180 glasses of wine
=24.6 cases of wine
One Case of Wine
=30 pounds of grapes
=48 glasses of wine
=12 bottles of wine
One bottle of wine =2.4 pounds of grapes
=4 glasses of wine
