Wine is a sort of alcoholic beverage which is prepared from fermented grapes or other fruits. The natural chemical balance of grapes helps them to get fermented with no need of products like sugars, acids, water, enzymes or any other sort of nutrients. The sugar in the grapes is consumed by yeast and is further converted into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Varying types of grapes and strains of yeast mixed with them helps in producing different type of wines. However, the best of all wines is said to be produced by highly complicated interactions between the biochemical development of fruit, various sort of reactions included in fermentation, terrior and succeeding appellation combines with human involvement.
1. The Good Food And Wine show
It is an event filled with tasty food and exotic wines. People were asked about the reason of visiting the show. 97% of them said they came for a day out and for having fun, 96% of them agreed they came to taste good food, 72% agreed they came for tasting wines, 68% were there to buy discounted food and wines.
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2. Alcohol In Your Drink
Calculating the amount of alcohol in a drink is simple. One unit of alcohol in a drink is equivalent to 10ml of pure alcohol. It takes nearly an hour for an adult to process this amount of alcohol from the blood stream. However, the time can vary from person to person and adult to adult.
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3. A Toast To Wine
Nearly 45% of Americans drink wine. This accounts for 13% of the total the wine in whole world. The total wine consumed by the US residents was calculated to be 746 million gallons in 2008, 763 million gallons in 2009, 784 and 836 million gallons in 2010 and 2011 and 856 million gallons in 2012.
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4. Wine Prices
The average price of the wine with a crown cap is $0.03, synthetic cork is $0.15, zork is $0.30, screw cap is $0.35, vino-lok is $0.83, capsules is $0.14, cork is $0.83. A wine in the glass bottle cost $0.88. A petit verdot wine will cost around $8.81 and a Merlot wine will cost $4.34.
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5. Wine Apps For The IPhone
There are several wine applications on the apple’s iTunes app store. There is an estimate of total 452 wine related applications on the store. The star rating for 28 of them is five, for 41 of them is four, for 73 of them is three, for 86 of them is two, for 26 of them is one and the rest 198 applications are without any star rating.
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6. Where The Wine Come From and Goes
The total world production of wine is of near about 26 million tones. Out of which 49,633mhl comes from France, 41,580mhl comes from Italy, 333,97mhl comes from Spain, 18,740mhl comes from USA, 15,473mhl comes from Argentina, 13,000mhl and 11,090mhl comes from China and Australia respectively, 10,463mhl, 9665mhl and 9661mhl comes from Chile, South Africa and Germany respectively.
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7. Wine Room Temperature
The average room temperature at home required for wine is 70-72 degrees. The average temperature required for Shiraz Bordeaux is 65 degrees, for Cabernet Sauvignon Burgundy Merlot is 63 degrees, Pinot Noir Rioja is 61 degrees and Chianti Zinfandel is 59 degrees.
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8. Wine Price Hike
A study conducted by the veterans of Switzerland about prices of near about 400,000 wines produced between 1996 and 2006. It was found that investment wines’ performances were continuing to outperform the Russell 3000 index, year by year. The best wine gauge was yielding a fivefold return and the regular wine prices were almost doubling.
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9. Top Wine Regions In The United States
There are around 84 wineries in the New York City, 36 in Texas, 187 in Willamette Valley, 160 in Washington, 40 in Sonoma Valley, 456 in Napa valley, 180 in Paso Robles and 22 in Charlottesville.
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10. The Unknown Wineries
The lesser known wine production areas of US, where the wine industry is though small, is growing on a faster pace includes Texas Panhandles, West Texas, Hill Country, South East Texas, North East Texas, New York, Washington, Virginia and Oregon.
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11. Wine In The Fridge
The average fridge temperature is 35-38 degrees. It is stated that the fridge is nearly 10 degrees colder than the recommended room temperature for a wine. 45% of the red wine drinker said that they drink wine at room temperature.
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12. Top 3 Wine Producers
The Italian Red wines are the most popular red wines in the world. It produces nearly 5, 05,000 tones of wine. The second most famous wine is from France. It produces nearly 4,711,600 tones of wine. The third most famous wine is Spanish wine. Spain produces near about 3,645,000 tones of wine.
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13. Styles Of Wines
All types of wines can be organized into 5 main fundamental groups. The different styles of wines are sparkling, white, rose, red, fortified. These major five groups can be further subdivided in accordance to their ingredients used, such different type of grapes and flavours.
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14. Flying Wines
The international panel of airways researchers has found that 63 out of 100 people voted the wine served at British Airways, 56 out of 100 people voted for emitters, 53 out of 100 people voted for France airways, KLM and Virgin.
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15. Canada’s Top Wine
Canada’s top brand wine is the yellow brand wine. The wine is celebrating 30 years in Canada. The wine was brought by German born, Australian wine maker Wolfgang (Wolf) Blass. It becomes Canada’s most love wine.
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16. Sparkling Wine
The real Champagne comes from Champagne France, rest all other are sparkling wine. The first sparkling wine vineyard was planted in 5th century. The world’s oldest bottle of champagne or sparkling wine was sold at an auction in 2011.
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17. Water And Wine
It takes 31gallons of water to make a single glass of wine. Latest techniques have helped in saving near about 5.4 million gallons of water in year 2012. This equivalent to the water needed to supply 54 houses for time duration of one year.
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18. Wine Vs Beer
One bottle of wine can led to nearly 750 calories production in the body. However, 6 packs of beer result in near about 900 calories.
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19. Popular Wines
Wines have always been in the list of choices of man. It is not the recent times, but from thousands of years, wine has always been one of everybody’s favorite beverages, irrespective of the region, culture, ages and sexes. Most popular wine names are Grenache, Cabernet Sauvignon, Airen, Tempranillo, Pinot Noir, Merlot, Sauv Blanc, Shiraz, Chardonnay, Cardigan, Malbec, etc.
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20. Top Wines Of 2012
Researchers suggested that out of near about 15,500 wines, only 100 can be the best one. The different types of wines includes red wine, red blend wine, white blend, champagne, sparkling wine, rose, sherry, dessert wine, port,etc.
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