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It’s National Wine Day!
May 25 is recognized as NATIONAL WINE DAY – but it’s not alone. It’s just one of 17 National Wine Days in a calendar year. If you think that’s too many, stop your
WINE-ing. There’s also: National Drink Wine Day on February 18, National Moscato Day on May 9, and so on. The ‘season’ of national wine days kicks off in February and finishes up on New Year’s Eve.
While California still leads US wine production and is now home to over 4,000 wineries state-wide, wineries are found across the US with at least 3 in every state. Iowa is home to 140 wineries (as of 2018), ranking in as the 15
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is National Wine Day! Red or white, wine has been an important part of human history and culture for thousands of years. Get this – archaeologists in Speyer, Germany discovered the oldest bottle of wine in existence while excavating two Roman stone sarcophaguses in 1867. The bottle dates back to at least
325 AD! It is now on display at the History Museum of the Pfalz in Germany.
There are many kinds of wine to consider – wines made from fruits besides grapes are usually named after the fruit from which they are produced
(for example, pomegranate wine, apple wine and elderberry wine)and are generically called fruit wine. The term “wine” can also refer to starch-fermented or fortified beverages having higher alcohol content, such as barley wine or sake.”
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is National Wine Day! Red or white, wine has been an important part of human history and culture for thousands of years. Get this – archaeologists in Speyer, Germany discovered the oldest bottle of wine in existence while excavating two Roman stone sarcophaguses in 1867. The bottle dates back to at least
325 AD! It is now on display at the History Museum of the Pfalz in Germany.
There are many kinds of wine to consider – wines made from fruits besides grapes are usually named after the fruit from which they are produced
(for example, pomegranate wine, apple wine and elderberry wine)and are generically called fruit wine. The term “wine” can also refer to starch-fermented or fortified beverages having higher alcohol content, such as barley wine or sake.”