Fascinating wine facts

YOU get to learn some fascinating facts on a South West Wine School course... such as:

There are 10,000 varieties of wine grapes existing worldwide.

You need to drink 7 glasses of orange juice or 20 glasses of apple juice in order to get the same amount of antioxidants in wine.

There is a right and wrong way to hold a wine glass. The proper way is to hold by the stem so that the hand does not warm the glass and increase the temperature of the wine.

The largest bottle of wine is the ‘Nebuchadnezzar’. It equates to 20 regular-sized bottles, or around 15 litres.

To quench a thirst, people drank wine instead of water centuries ago. In those days water was often far from clean, and natural fermentation during the wine-making process could kill germs caused by typhi (salmonella) and cholera.

And for those who thought Chablis was only made from some special grape grown in that French region, it is in fact made from chardonnay.