Saturday, November 20, 2010

What's a wino to do?

Today some friends and I went to the vineyard and it was absolutely beautiful, there probably are few things better in life than cornhole and wine tastings. I am hardly a wino, but their wines weren't bad at all. I am so sad that its going to be too cold soon to go to the vineyards, in fact, I'm mourning the end of warm weather in general.


  • The smell of young wine is called an “aroma” while a more mature wine offers a more subtle “bouquet
  • An Italian study argues that women who drink two glasses of wine a day have better sex than those who don’t drink at all ( hells yes! Now these are stats I can get behind)
  • California, New York, and Florida lead the United States in wine consumption
  • The wreck of the TITANIC holds the oldest wine cellar in the world and despite the depth and wreckage, the bottles are still intact
  • As late as the mid-17th century, the French wine makers did not use corks. Instead, they used oil-soaked rags stuffed into the necks of bottles.
  • 170 years is the average age of a French oak tree harvested for use in wine barrels (might as well sit back and enjoy a glass while waiting)

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