Excited? I’ve been thinking how to best post my trivia and answers that I’ll reveal on Thursday (hopefully just in time for you to appear smarter when you have a drink with friends over the weekend). I’m thinking that I’ll post the questions like a regular post, and then the answers on the “Winey Wednesday” page – so you have a one-stop shop for all the random factoids you ever wanted to know about wine! Let me know if you have any ideas…
Now, down to business.
1. How many grapes on average go into making one bottle of wine?
2. You’ve guessed the grape count, now when was the cork developed?
3. So, you need to uncork that bottle. When was the corkscrew invented?
4. Uncorking a bottle and letting it stand for an hour or so before drinking allows the wine to breathe. True or false?
5. Put these wines in proper tasting order. Red/Sparkling/White.
um, so i know nothing about wine. the only ones i can even attempt (but will probably get wrong) are 4 and 5. so:
4) true?
5) sparkling, white, red?
man i feel dumb right now, but i cant wait to hear the answers!!
Gretchen! I just saw this–what a wonderful idea.
Here’s my attempt:
1) A whole, whole lot.
2) 17th or 18th century? I know the narrow-necked bottles were a later development, so I’m guessing the cork was introduced about the same time.
3)Guessing about the same time as no. 2?
4) True?
5) Yay…one I know. Sparkling, white, red.
Wow, I never realized how much I don’t know.
4) No, because it has to be poured out into a decanter with larger surface area than the bottle opening. (I think!)
-Suzanne