Top 12 Things I Bet You Never Knew About Wine

Why don’t you try out these weird wine facts with friends and see if they know these Top 12 Things I Bet You Never Knew About Wine….

1. Not all wines are vegan. Some go through a filtration process that uses animal byproducts like gelatin.
2. Wine is actually good for your brain.
3. Oenophobia meaning fear of wine is a real thing. 
4. The world’s oldest bottle dates back to 325 A.D. and is on display in a museum in Speyer, Germany.
5. Wine-flavoured Kit Kats are a thing. You can only get them in Japan (and on Amazon), but still.
6. Italy has a free, 24-hour wine fountain.
7. Toasting started in ancient Rome. When Romans would drop a piece of toasted bread into each glass to temper excessive acidity.
8. Hammurabi’s Code (1800 B.C.) had a law about wine. Fraudulent wine sellers were to be punished by drowning in a river.
9. Drinking to one’s health started in ancient Greece. The idea was that the host drank the first cup of wine to show his guests he wasn’t poisoning them.
10. Women are better wine tasters. Because wine tasting has so much to do with smell and women have a better sense of smell than men. 
11. Not all wines improve with age. In fact, 90% of wines should be consumed within a year of production.
12. There’s a reason why you store wine sideways as it keeps it from drying out