Any sparkling wine made outside France is not considered champagne
Pretentious, right? What do we call other attempts at making champagne? "Wine Soda" just doesn't quite sound as classy, even if it's a little more appropriate for favored collegiate brands such as "Andre's."
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It is a common misconception that all wines improve with age. In fact, more than 90 percent of all wines should be consumed within one year
In fact, only a very very small percentage of wine lasts more than ten years without becoming essentially vinegar. So the next time some hack tries to impress you with his 20 year old bottle of wine, you can politely decline him.
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Wine grapes are the world's number one fruit crop in terms of acres planted
We all love our wine, don't we? And it's not hard to realize why. It can be classy or trashy; cheap or expensive. Really, wine serves a variety of purposes for a huge variety of people all across the globe!
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The phrase “drinking to your health,” comes from Ancient Greece where the host of a party would drink the wine first to check for poison
The more you know, right? We personally rarely host parties because we don't want our stupid friends to destroy our home, but if it was a thing to poison someone's booze supply? Forget it- y'all can just throw all the parties from now on.
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According to legend, wine was discovered when a Persian woman tried to take her own life by eating fermented grapes, thinking them poisonous
The woman was actually in the harem of a famous Persian king, and if the legend is to be believed, she came back from the experience much rejuvenated and filled with life. Which sounds about right to us.
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