1.The majority of wines produced should be consumed within a year or two, and very few are designed to last longer than a decade.
2.You would normally serve red wine with red meat, white wine with white meat or fish, and sweet wine with dessert.
3.The vintage of a wine refers to the year the grapes were picked rather than the year it was bottled - as these two are often different, especially for the leading vineyards.
4.It is thought that the process of making wine was discovered over 8000 years ago when yeast stuck to grapes stored in large jars by accident.
5.A ‘corked’ wine is one that has been affected by cork taint, something caused by the old process of using chlorine-based cleaning products in the winery (most wineries no longer use this since this was discovered as the cause of cork taint in the early 1990s). If a wine is corked it will taste and smell a little like wet cardboard.
6.The reason that a wine glass generally curves in at the top is to keep the aroma of the drink inside the glass rather than ‘wasting’ it in the air!
7.Studies show that moderate regular intake of wine can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s, heart disease and stroke.
8.Over time, a red wine will usually lose deepness of colour and become lighter, whereas a white wine will get darker - sometimes quite brown - with age.
9.The word champagne refers to a particular region in France. Only wine produced in this exact region can be called Champagne - this means not all sparkling wine carries the prestigious name!
10.In general, the juice from all colours of grape is clear. This means the colour of the grape does not mean a wine is red or white! In making red wine, it is in fact the skins which are included in the fermentation which give the wine its colour, whereas they are excluded in the process of creating white wine. Rose wine is made by removing the skins halfway through the fermentation process!
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