Funky Wine Stuff

Wine Quotes

• When I read about all the evils of drinking wine, I was so shocked, I gave up reading.
• A “cork-tease” is someone who constantly talks about the wine he or she will open, but never does
• Wine... the reason I get out of bed... every afternoon
• Wine improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it
• Dear Optimist, Pessimist, and Realist. While you guys were arguing about the glass of wine. I drank it.   - The Opportunist
• "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy" - Benjamin Franklin
• “Why is it that when you DO happen to spill red wine on yourself, you are ALWAYS wearing a white shirt??” – The Wine Oak
• Compromises are for relationships, not wine. - Sir Robert Scott Caywood
• “You haven't drunk too much wine if you can still lie on the floor without holding on” - Dean Martin
• “Going to have a ‘put it in’ house warming. You bring a bottle of wine and put it in my wine rack...”
• “Happy Valenwines day!” – The Wine Oak

Wine Advice

• The second cheapest bottle of wine on a winelist, generally has the highest mark up
• Leave wine in your mouth for a second or 2. High quality wine tastes good but also has a long after-taste as opposed to a short after-taste

Wine Facts

• A wine bottle which holds 20 times that of a standard bottle of wine, or 15 litres, is called a 'Nebuchadnezzar'
• A wine that tastes watery is said to taste 'dilute.' It may have been made from grapes picked during a rainstorm.
• The juice of most grapes is clear & virtually colourless, Pontac & Roobernet however, have red juice.
• Grapes - the only fruit that is capable of producing proper nutrition for the yeast on its skin & sugar in its juice to ferment naturally
• Wine is considered more complex than blood serum it has so many organic chemical compounds.
• The average age of a French oak tree harvested for use in wine barrels is 170 years!
• The average glass of red wine contains about 110 calories, while a glass of white wine has about 104
• An aging barrel holds 59 gallons; 225 litres; 300 bottles; 24 cases or 1800 125ml glasses - In my case 900 250ml glasses ;)
• The auger, or curly metal part of a corkscrew, is sometimes called a worm.
• The average life of a vine is 40 years, but with no disease & temperate weather, vines can live up to 100 years.
• It is theorized there are approximately 44 million bubbles in a bottle of sparkling wine/ champagne

Wineteresting

• 'Oenophobia' is an intense fear or hatred of wine.
• "Women who drink 2 glasses of wine a day are said to be more active in bed. In simple words, they enjoy sex better." Drink up ladies ;)
• Early Roman women were not allowed to drink wine. If their husbands found about their wine drinking, they had the liberty to kill them
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork, than by a poisonous spider
• A raisin dropped into a glass of champagne will repeatedly bounce between the top and bottom of the glass
• Marilyn Monroe is said to have taken a bath in 350 bottles worth of champagne.
• The hobby of collecting champagne bottle tops is called plagueusephilia