Important Wine Knowledge

Did You Know…

That Australians enjoy the taste of oak so much that they prefer to drink their wine from wooden tankards?
That the French ceremonially entomb someone call Brett in their cellars during the period that the wine ferments?
That all Pinot Grigio can be traced back to its original source?
That Swiss wines tend to be neutral?
That top vineyards in the Beaune employ highly trained Burghounds to sniff out the best grapes to harvest?
That Cliff Richard’s wine Vida Loca tastes older than it is?
That the Napa Valley is now so important that it has to dress up in the evening before meeting other wine producing areas?
That South African wines are never knowingly oversold?
That gooseberry bushes grow everywhere in Marlborough, New Zealand?
That all wine surveys reveal ineluctable truths about human nature?
That only the very best wines are allowed to win awards in the international wine competitions?
That the text on of all wine back labels is all written by the same salad-munching, white & some red meat (with fish)-eating teetotaller?
That when the magnetic poles reverse themselves that Australian wines will become so sophisticated that only French people will drink them?
That the Chancellor exacts duty on wine purely to penalise those uncontrollable youths who flock into city centres to quaff Sancerres and Nuits Saint Georges with their smoked salmon and quails egg canapes?