Four clusters of grapes produces one bottle of wine.

Grapes are the most planted fruit on the planet.

The Mesopotamians are credited as being the first to produce wine in 6000 B.C.

During prohibition, a product called the Grape Brick was sold to thousands of households in America. Attached to the brick of dried and pressed winegrape concentrate was a packet of yeast and a warning, “Do not add yeast or fermentation will result.”

American wine drinkers consume more wine on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year

Dom Perignon (1638-1715), credited with developing the Champagne making process, was blind

Rosé wines are made from red grapes and get their “pinkish” color from the short time the juice is in contact with the red grape skins.

The pressure in a bottle of sparkling wine is about 90psi, about three times that in a car tire.

In the middle ages wine was used as currency.

Red wines are red because fermentation extracts color from the grape skins. White wines are not fermented with the skins present.^e

Over 10,000 varieties of wine grapes are grown around the world.

Airén is the world's most planted wine grape. Predominantly planted in Spain (occupying more than one million acres) it is most widely used to make brandy