Wine Facts

Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

White wine gets darker as it ages while red wine gets lighter.

The purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle.

The 'vintage date' on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling!

15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.