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    101 Amazing Facts about Wine
    101 Amazing Facts about Wine
    101 Amazing Facts about Wine
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    101 Amazing Facts about Wine

    By Jack Goldstein

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    Do you know how much the most expensive bottle of wine ever auctioned sold for? Or how the production processes of red and white wine differ? What should you be doing when a waiter hands you a cork? And what is the difference between an aroma and a bouquet? All these questions and more are answered in this fascinating book about wine. Whether you are an experienced wine buff and want to discover some interesting and little-known facts, or you are new to the world of fine wines and want an introduction to the subject, this is an excellent addition to your bookshelf.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAUK Authors
    Release dateDec 18, 2013
    ISBN9781783334537

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      The Basics

      The majority of wines produced should be consumed within a year or two, and very few are designed to last longer than a decade.

      You would normally serve red wine with red meat, white wine with white meat or fish, and sweet wine with dessert.

      The vintage of a wine refers to the year the grapes were picked rather than the year it was bottled - as these two are often different, especially for the leading vineyards.

      It is thought that the process of making wine was discovered over 8000 years ago when yeast stuck to grapes stored in large jars by accident.

      A ‘corked’ wine is one that has been affected by cork taint, something caused by the old process of using chlorine-based cleaning products in the winery (most wineries no longer use this since this was discovered as the cause of cork taint in the early 1990s). If a wine is corked it will taste and smell a little like wet

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