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Worlds oldest wine bottle!Interesting Wine Facts & Definitions The Irish believe that fairies are extremely fond of good wine. The proof of the assertion is that in the olden days royalty would leave a keg of wine out for them at night. Sure enough, it was always gone in the morning. - Irish FolkloreAmbrose Bierce (1842-1914), "The Devil's Dictionary", 1911: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. "Pauillac, 1873," he murmured and died.Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When e'er we let the wine rest. Here's death to Prohibition's fools, And every kind of vine-pest! - Jamrach HolobomAmbrose Bierce (1842-1914), "The Devil's Dictionary", 1911: WINE, n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.There are about 400 species of oak, though only about 20 are used in making oak barrels. Of the trees that are used, only 5% is suitable for making high grade wine barrels. The average age of a French oak tree harvested for use in wine barrels is 170 years!1 grape cluster = 1 glass 75 grapes = 1 cluster 4 clusters = 1 bottle 40 clusters = 1 vine 1 vine = 10 bottles 1200 clusters = 1 barrel 1 barrel = 60 gallons 60 gallons = 25 cases 30 vines = 1 barrel 400 vines = 1 acre 1 acre = 5 tons 5 tons = 332 casesThe bill for a celebration party for the 55 drafters of the US Constitution was for 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of port, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 beers and seven bowls of alcohol punch large enough that "ducks could swim in them."The Manhattan cocktail (whiskey and sweet vermouth) was invented by Winston Churchill's mother.In the 1600's thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury.The longest recorded champagne cork flight was 177 feet and 9 inches, four feet from level ground at Woodbury Vineyards in New York State.Foot treading of grapes is still used in producing a small quantity of the best port wines.In ancient Babylon, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead (fermented honey beverage) he could drink for a month after the wedding. Because their calendar was lunar or moon-based, this period of free mead was called the "honey month," or what we now call the "honeymoon."Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the liquid to determine the ideal temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, for adding yeast. From this we get the phrase "rule of thumb."In English pubs drinks are served in pints and quarts. In old England, bartenders would advise unruly customers to mind their own pints and quarts. It's the origin of "mind your P's and Q's."How big can a wine bottle get? Capacity (Liters) followed by the number of standard size bottles contained: Standard (.75) 1 Magnum (1.5) 2 Jeroboam (3) 4 Rehoboam (4.5) 6 Methuselah (6) 8 Salmanazar (9) 12 Balthazar (12) 16 Nebuchadnezzar (15) 20Thomas Jefferson’s salary was $25,000 per year - a princely sum, but the expenses were also great. In 1801 Jefferson spent $6,500 for provisions and groceries, $2,700 for servants (some of whom were liveried), $500 for Lewis’s salary, and $3,000 for wine.â€Thomas Jefferson helped stock the wine cellars of the first five U.S. presidents and was very partial to fine Bordeaux and Madeira.Cork was developed as a bottle closure in the late 17th century. It was only after this that bottles were lain down for aging, and the bottle shapes slowly changed from short and bulbous to tall and slender.The Napa Valley crop described in 1889 newspapers as the finest of its kind grown in the U.S. was...hops.What is the ideal temperature for wine? Whites: chilled (45-55 degrees F) for a few hours in the refrigerator. Reds: slightly cooler than room temperature (about 65 degrees); Younger fruity reds benefit from chilling. Sparkling Wine: thoroughly chilled; refrigerate several hours or the night before serving. Dessert Wine: room temperature.Chilling tones down the sweetness of wine. If a red wine becomes too warm, it may lose some of its fruity flavor.Should I ever use a decanter for my wines? A decanter is used mainly to remove sediment from older red wines. Also, it can be used to open up young red wines. Otherwise, wine will “breathe†enough in your glass and decanting is not necessary.Why should I swirl wine in my glass before I drink it? By swirling your wine, oxygen is invited into the glass, which allows the aromas to escape.
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