Wine Facts: For the Wino in Everyone

11. One bottle of wine contains about 2.8 pounds of grapes

Let's put this in perspective: A single grape weighs around 0.0015 pounds, which means that a single bottle of wine contains the juices of 1,867 grapes! Now remind us why we waste them in grape juice?

12. Women tend to be better wine tasters than men because of their better sense of smell

Serious wine tasting is a hobby very few take up, but if they do, it's typically younger women who are the best at it because of how heavily smell is involved in the process. There's another point for the ladies in the battle of the sexes!

13. The Code of Hammurabi (1800 B.C.) includes a law that punishes fraudulent wine sellers: They were to be drowned in a river

Wine is serious business, man! Even back when Hammurabi was out there collecting eyes for eyes, the people were demanding good wine. Question, though: How does one sell wine "fraudulently?" Do they give their customers a bottle of Kedem and then make a run for it?

14. An Italian study argues that women who drink two glasses of wine a day have better sex than those who don’t drink at all

Now, we're not about to go ahead and immediately undermine a study, but you have to admit this sounds like some Italian researcher was just trying to get his girl into bed quicker. "But baby, it's science!"

15. "Wine" is mentioned 521 times in the Bible

With all of the talk of it being a manual on holiness, people seem to forget just how much belligerence there is in the holy book. We're even commanded to "drink [our] wine with a joyful heart" at one point!

16. Any sparkling wine made outside France is not considered champagne

Pretentious, right? What do we call other attempts at making champagne? "Wine Soda" just doesn't quite sound as classy, even if it's a little more appropriate for favored collegiate brands such as "Andre's."

17. It is a common misconception that all wines improve with age. In fact, more than 90 percent of all wines should be consumed within one year

In fact, only a very very small percentage of wine lasts more than ten years without becoming essentially vinegar. So the next time some hack tries to impress you with his 20 year old bottle of wine, you can politely decline him.

18. Wine grapes are the world's number one fruit crop in terms of acres planted

We all love our wine, don't we? And it's not hard to realize why. It can be classy or trashy; cheap or expensive. Really, wine serves a variety of purposes for a huge variety of people all across the globe!

19. Any sparkling wine made outside France is not considered champagne

Pretentious, right? What do we call other attempts at making champagne? "Wine Soda" just doesn't quite sound as classy, even if it's a little more appropriate for favored collegiate brands such as "Andre's."

20. It is a common misconception that all wines improve with age. In fact, more than 90 percent of all wines should be consumed within one year

In fact, only a very very small percentage of wine lasts more than ten years without becoming essentially vinegar. So the next time some hack tries to impress you with his 20 year old bottle of wine, you can politely decline him.