Incredible facts about wine
- Blood of ancestors – Ancient Egyptians kings avoided consumption of wine because of its striking resemblance to blood. They considered it to be the blood of the ancestors and soldiers who fought battles against powerful gods and lost and died in the process. The effects of wine on drunk people made them all the more wary that it was a cursed drink after drinking which people never remained in their senses.
- Get the name right – In an experiment conducted, it was found that people did not paying more for wines which had names which are difficult to pronounce. It was also reported that the participants who had some knowledge about wine also claimed that the wines which had difficult names were worth the money.
- Seagull wine – Seagull wine lives up to its name because of the way it is produced. It is manufactured by stuffing a whole seagull in a bottle of water and then leaving it in the sun to ferment.
- Legs on wine – The legs on wine does not determine quality contrary to what people think but actually determines the content of alcohol.
- Music affects the kind of wine bought – In an experiment conducted in 1997, it was found that customers bought French wine when French music played and switched over to German when German music is played.
- Wine made from tigers – There are a lot of tigers bred in captivity in China. The number of tigers in captivity far outnumber the tiger population outside and in the wild. The reason for this is simply to make Tiger Bone wine.
- Cobra wine – You might be grossed out by this but it is incredible nonetheless. In Vietnam, you will have the option of ordering cobra blood menu in restaurants. The wine lives up to its name because when you order for cobra blood wine, the waiter will get you a live cobra, kill it on the spot, drain the blood into a shot glass of rice wine and top the shot glass with a garnish of the cobra’s probably still beating heart .
- Wine as fuel – When you are rich, then there is so much you can buy and do with those things. Prince Charles uses wine to power his vintage Aston Martin . Talk about royalty.
