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                                                 Vine Trivia Uncorked


                                                            By Laura Berrio, Freelance Writer/Blogger

      1.  What  Temperature                             5.  Is  The  Practice  Of                          8. What Happens To Red And White Wine As They
      Should  Red  Wine  Be                             Walking  On  Grapes                                Age?
      Stored At And Served At?                          (Think I Love Lucy) Still                            Red wine gets lighter in color and white wine gets
        Red wine should be stored                       Used In Wine Making?                               darker in color.
      at 55 degrees in a wine                             It is! Usually when                              9.  How  Much  Pressure  Is  There  In A  Bottle  Of
      refrigerator or cellar. Red                       producing small quantities                         Champagne?
      wine should be served at room                     of high end Port wines.                              The pressure in a bottle of Champagne is 90 pounds
      temperature … to clarify …                        6. What Has The Highest                            per square inch, about three times that in your automobile
      not room temperature here in                      Alcohol  Content: Wine,                            tire.
      Florida … room temperature                        Beer Or Whisky?                                    10. Are You Scared To Open A Bottle Of Champagne?
      in a nice cool wine cellar                          Standard serving sizes                           Now You Have A Reason To Be! How Fast Does A Cork
      …70 degrees.                                      of all alcoholic beverages –                       Travel When You Open It?
      2. What Color Grapes Are Used To Make White Wine?  beer, wine, and liquor – are                        A flying cork can travel up to 50 miles
        Red grapes!                                     equal in alcoholic strength                        per hour.
      3. How Many Grapes Does It Take To Make A Bottle   and effect on the body.                             ~Cheers
      Of Wine?                                          7. What Type Of Wine Has The Lowest Calories?        ~Keep the conversation going and
        On average it takes 736 grapes to make one bottle.    Dry and low alcohol content wines are the lowest in   the wine flowing!
      4. How Many Bubbles In A Bottle Of Champagne?     calories … although I would rather drink what I like and     Follow the Vine on Instagram @
        Almost 58 million!                              cut calories somewhere else!                       VineVibeUncorked




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            I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You Didn’t Know It Either



                                                         Fascinating trivia facts compiled by Stanley Morgenbesser
      Who Holds The Record For                          his staff. A coin-box telephone was installed at his mansion   lakes. While public water supplies are tested for contaminants
      Giving Birth To The Most                          for guests to use, so that he would not be billed for their calls.   every day, makers of bottled water are only required to test
      Children?                                         As for his grandson’s kidnapping, Getty ended up paying the   for specific contaminants every week, month, or year.
        A Russian woman who                             $2.2 million portion of the ransom that was tax deductible,   Which Is The Only Best Picture Oscar Winner That Had
      lived between 1707 and 1782                       and loaned the remaining $800,000 of the ransom to his son   No Female Speaking Roles?
      holds the highest official                        (at 4 percent interest) to pay the kidnappers.       Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical
      record after giving birth                         Is Bottled Water Better For You Than Tap Water?    drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. Despite
      to 69 children. She had 27                          Bottled water is no safer or purer than tap water, although   running nearly four hours long, Lawrence of Arabia has
      pregnancies, which included                       it is substantially more expensive. A recent study by Glasgow   no female characters with speaking roles. The film was
      16 sets of twins, seven sets                      University in the U.K. found that bottled water is actually   nominated for ten Oscars at the 35th Academy Awards. It
      of triplets, and four sets of                     more likely to be contaminated than water from your faucet   won seven, including Best Picture. In the years since, it has
      quadruplets. Only two of                          because it is less well-regulated. Bottled water and tap water   been recognized as one of the greatest and most influential
      them died in infancy.                             typically come from the same sources – natural springs and   films in the history of cinema.
      Who Holds The Record For Being The Oldest Woman
      To Give Birth?
        India’s Daljinder Kaur was believed to be in her early 70s
      when she gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on April 19,
      2016. Kaur and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder, spent
      decades trying to have a baby – and finally succeeded after
      saving up enough money for fertility treatments.
      Which Billionaire Installed A Pay Phone In His Home
      For His Guests To Use?
        In 1966, J. Paul Getty was named the richest man in the
      world. Despite his vast wealth, he is remembered for two odd
      things: placing a pay phone in his home, and refusing to pay
      his grandson’s $17 million kidnapping ransom. Getty placed
      dial-locks on all the regular telephones, limiting their use to



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