Curiosities among the strangest and little known, related to wine

Hello everyone! The articles in this blog revolve around the wine. We love to drink it, taste it and pair it. But besides this, behind this drink there is much more. I searched the web for informations and curiosities among the strangest and little known related to wine that will surely excite your interest!

• The oldest fossil records of vine shoots, dating back to 2 million years ago, have been found in Tuscany. For the first traces of drinks derived from grape juice we must wait for the Neolithic.
• The bottles of wine are 75 cl because this unit of measure comes to us from the British who measured the volume in imperial gallons. Each gallon was worth 4.5 liters. Each case of wine contained 2 gallons, which divided into 12 bottles results in 75 centilitres each.
• The Hungarians never finish their glass. It is a proverb that hides the story of one of the best Hungarian wines: Eszsencia. It was a freshly fermented grape juice, sweet, liqueur and syrupy so much that its last drops remained inaccessible on the bottom of the glass, despite the desire to finish it!
• Italy produces 43.3 million hectoliters of wine per year, an amount capable of filling 1925 Olympic swimming pools.
• The country where you drink more wine in the world is the Vatican. Statistics are sometimes misleading when they compare the amount of wine consumed for each inhabitant!
• The highest vineyard in Europe is located in Italy, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, at a height of 1350 m.s.l.m.
• Wine is rich in substances that are good for our body, so, if drunk without exceeding the recommended dose, it’s good!
• The most expensive wine in the world certainly falls into the category of the Screaming Eagle Cabernet of 1992, a Californian red sold at an auction for charity, to the modest sum of $ 500,000.
• Cellars and wine holders are such as to keep the bottles tilted because they must be kept in a position to allow the cork to remain in contact with the wine, so as to remain moist and elastic, therefore not allowing the entry of oxygen into the bottle.
• There was also wine in the original recipe for Coca Cola: Pemberton exported his imitation of Coca Wine in the USA. But he did it at the time of prohibition, which forced him to eliminate alcohol from the drink.

I hope I have stimulated your curiosity!

Hello everyone!

Ilde