1.A large glass of wine (250ml, or a third of a bottle) typically contains around 211 calories.
2.Investing in fine wine in recent years has been a safer bet than the stock market! Between 2007 and 2008, the London FTSE 100 fell seven percent, whereas the Liv-ex (a ‘wine exchange’) increased by 34 per cent!
3.For every glass of wine consumed in the world, three bottles of beer are drunk.
4.The largest wine-producing state in the USA is California, which annually produces almost two billion bottles of wine - 90% of the country’s total output!
5.The shape of the bottle that a wine is kept in can usually tell you which region it comes from - certainly in France. A bottle with high shoulders and a long, slender neck usually means the wine is from the Bordeaux region, whereas one with longer more sloping shoulders will be from the Burgundy region.
6.There are said to be between 50 and 250 million bubbles in a single bottle of champagne.
7.Each size of wine bottle has a name. First you have your standard bottle of 750ml. Next up you have a magnum (equivalent of 2 bottles), a Jeroboam (4), A Rehoboam (6), a Methuselah (8), a Salmanazar (12), a Balthazar (16) and a Nebuchadnezzar (20). Phew!
8.The name for someone who loves wine is oenophile. Conversely if you can’t stand it, then you have oenophobia.
9.Wine has been kept in many containers over the years, from the jars and amphora of ancient times, animal skins of the middle ages right up to the modern-day bottle. The familiar dark-green bottle many wines come in today is thought to have been invented by Englishman Kenelm Digby in the 17th century.
10.In the Old Testament, the book of Jonah is the only one not to mention wine!
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