1. Wine Drinking equals Better Sex
Perhaps one of the most amazing and at the same time interesting fact about wine is that, drunk regularly can better your sex life. An Italian study showed that women who have 2 glasses of wine daily enjoy better physically pleasures than women who don’t drink wine at all. Isn’t this a quite good reason to start drinking wine?
2. World’s Biggest Wine Consumers
Can you guess who the biggest wine consumers in the world are? Well, while Italy is world’s biggest wine producer, Italian are only #3 on our wine consumers list surpassed by France with 8.14 L per capita and Portugal with 6.65. Surprisingly, Croatia and Andorra are #4 and 5 on the list with 5.80 respectively 5.69 L per capita. When it comes to the biggest US wine consumers the leaders are: California, New York followed by Florida.
3. Monks were The Best Winemakers
Amazingly, the art of making wine was preserved and innovated in the Middle Ages, in the monastic orders. Thanks to the Cistercians and Benedictines we have such an elaborated and perfected winemaking technology today because they actually tasted the earth to discover how the soil changed from place to place. Thanks to Dom Pierre Perignon (1638-1715) we now enjoy the tastiest champagnes due to his share in founding many principles and processes in its production that are still used today.
4. An Enzyme causes Women Get Drunk Faster from Wine
Did you know that there’s an enzyme in the stomach that makes women get drunk faster from drinking wine? This enzyme is located in the linen of the stomach and it helps metabolize alcohol more efficiently. While men have more of this enzyme than women, they get drunk harder while women easier.
5. Oldest Winemaking Evidence Discovered in Middle East
Recent archaeological discoveries have found grape seeds dating from 8000 B.C. in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Also, the oldest pips of cultivated vines were found in Georgia, dating from 7000-5000 B.C.
