10 unnecessary ridiculous facts about wine

Whether I wanted to pick up the baton of the unnecessarily silly trivia in the case of wine. You only have to tell me once. I dove into wine cellars, vineyards, and bottles to extract them for you. Buckle up, because these are facts that do exceptionally well at your next glass. 

1. There are people in the world who are afraid of wine, this is called oenophobia. I want to immediately express my sympathy to those who suffer from this. What a shame. Oeno is the Greek word for wine, not to be confused with the Dutch term oen of course.

2. Women get drunk on wine faster than men. It sounds very unfair, but that’s because we have fewer enzymes in the stomach that break down alcohol.

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3. That first sip of wine by the host or hostess is an old custom. The company could then check if the grape juice was not poisoned. A bit grim though.

4. The oldest wine cellar in the world can be found in the Titanic. Yes, that one that went down to the bottom of the ocean with Leo and Kate. I suspect no bottle will be pulled out for dinner there anymore.

5. In the past, people drank wine instead of water to quench their thirst. Fortunately, we only do that on weekends now.

6. Grapes are the most planted fruit type in the world. Ha-ha-ha, I completely understand this. The grape from which you make wine is not the regular table grape that we eat by the handful, but a special variety.

7. Hippocrates used wine as medicine. Fever? Wine. To reduce inflammation? Wine. General malaise? Wine. By the way, it’s not a crazy thought from the ancient man, because red wine has a beneficial effect on health. It is said that having a glass occasionally can reduce the risk of diabetes by thirty percent.

8. In Roman times, it was forbidden for women to drink wine. If you were caught red-handed drinking wine, the death penalty was imposed. No one knows why this was.

9. You need between 440 and 660 grapes to make one average bottle of wine. And suddenly you understand once again that the grape is the most planted fruit type in the world.

10. The follow-up to the grim fact about poisoning each other: toasting with wine also originated this way. Apparently, they used to do this so exuberantly that wine poured from one glass to another. Toasting was also a sign that there was nothing wrong with the wine. Drinking wine in the old days was apparently a lot less fun than it is now.

Plop! This says your favorite wine about you.