Random Wine Facts: The Triumph of Wine Minutiae
And so it begins…Tom Cruise served 300 bottles of wine at his wedding. Alexander III of Scotland served about 135,000 bottles in 1251. Random Wine Facts is a Web 2.0 oriented place where wine trivia can be found in abundance.
One can begin at Facebook and move on to Twitter where 140 characters or less is the preferred landscape, perfect for trivia. It’s here that our wine education starts to really pick up Web 2.0 steam. You were craving to know this..The World’s Largest Quality Wine Collection in the cellar of Milestii Mici, Republic of Moldova, boasts 1.5 million bottles. How many of us will be able to forget where we were when we first heard that.
But the Tweets and Facebook updates get even better as you start to roll through it. It becomes fascinating, almost addicting.
The word ‘Wine’ is mentioned 521 times in the Bible. The Pope’s communion wine is made by 78yr old Giovanni Russo. He uses local white grape varieties sourced from vineyards around Rome. And of course the obligatory nod to our pop culture obsession with celebrity. Celebrities who own vineyards include Francis Ford Coppola,Cliff Richard,Mick Hucknall,Victoria Beckham,Joe Montana,Sting,Gerard Depardieu.
Random wine facts that we, for whatever reason, cannot live without.
It is said, that the broad shallow champagne stemware aka ‘Champagne coup/ saucer’ was modeled on the shape of Marie Antoinette’s breasts.
The highest price paid for a bottle of wine was an insurance claim of $225,000 to settle a 1787 Chateau Margaux dropped by a waiter in 1989.
The grape known commonly as ‘Pinot Noir’ has more than 200 synonyms worldwide including Spätburgunder, Pinot nero,Crni Pozni & Shpachok
Out of a total of up to 10000 grape varieties, an estimated 2500 different varieties are permitted for Wine production worldwide.
Passing through some of Bordeaux’s finest chateaus, the Médoc Marathon combines wine-drinking and running, serving runners wine and food.
Marilyn Monroe is said to have bathed in champagne. It took 350 bottles to fill her bathtub.
92,5% of US-American women drink wine at least once a week.Survey by Vinexpo.
Well, you get the idea. It’s actually kind of cool. Follow them. Sometimes they actually hit on something that really stands out.
