Facts About Wine: This Ones For All The Wine Lovers Out There

Wine is the choice of drink for many us when we go out for supper or when you stop at the liquor store and on your way home and are just relaxing in the comfort of our own homes. If you’re a wine drinker, you probably have a favourite kind, maybe a certain way you like to drink it. Regardless, you could be the biggest wine fan out there but you may not have heard of these crazy facts about wine that we’re about to lay down. Here’s some interesting facts and we hope you enjoy.

1. ARE WOMAN LIGHTWEIGHTS?

The facts are in, and technically… yes! Woman have a greater chance of being susceptible to wine as it has to do with the make up of their stomach lining. When they have a harder time digesting it and breaking it down, it tends to affect them to a greater degree. Of course, that’s not to say many woman can’t handle their wine as good as men, because they sure can! But this is one of the facts about wine that comes from the biological perspective.

2. SO MANY GRAPES!

One of the crazier facts about wine is this one right here. Did you know that in the whole world, there are over 10,000 types of grapes that are each different from each other in some way? This is how wine is able to come in so many different flavours and types. Since wine is made from grapes, they are the building block to the wine making process.

3. WHY DO PEOPLE SWIRL WINE? FACTS ABOUT WINE

Have you ever noticed that when people are tasting wine, they will sometime swirl the wine before smelling it and then tasting it? This has to do with aromas. When the wine is swirled, the aromas are able to escape the wine, and by not filling the glass up all the way, the aromas are able to collect within the glass. A person can tell a lot about a wine just by the aromas coming out of the wine.

4. WINE TASTING EVENTS

Often at wine tasting events, you will see people spit out the wine they just drank. This is not because they do not enjoy the wine, it is because they want to be able to try a wide variety of wine without getting too intoxicated. If someone ended up drinking all their tasters and was not used to drinking wine, or was someone who could more easily get drunk, they probably would.

5. FACT ABOUT WINE AND HOW TO HOLD THE GLASS

You may be surprised to hear this, but there is actually a correct and an incorrect way to hold a wine glass. The correct way is to hold the wine glass on the stem. There is a very specific reason for this, and that would be so that the wine does not get warm from the heat coming from you hands. The wine is able to more easily stay the temperature it is supposed to be.

FACTS ABOUT WINE

Now, you might not be much of a wine drinker, so if that’s the case, check out this blog we like called Facts About Beer instead!