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Fun Wine Facts
Each acre of vineyard produces, on average, 4 tons of grapes. Some, though, produce as little as 1.5 to 2 tons. In a few places, such as California’s Central Valley, yields of 12-14 tons per acre are not unheard of.
Each ton of grapes produces, on average, 150 gallons, or 63 cases, or 756 bottles. Thus, you get about 3024 bottles to an acre.
It takes about 16 pounds of grapes to produce a gallon of wine.
Each barrel contains enough wine to produce about 60 gallons, 25 cases, or 300 bottles.
We typically think of wine bottles as the standard 750 ML liter model. But they actually come in many sizes with unique names:
- Magnum (1.5 liters) 2 bottles
- Jeroboam (3 liters) 4 bottles
- Rehoboam (4.5 liters) 6 bottles
- Methuselah (6 liters) 8 bottles
- Salmanazar (9 liters) 12 bottles
- Balthazar (12 liters) 16 bottles
- Nebuchadnezzar (15 liters) 20 bottles
What’s The “A.P” Number on German Wine?
German wines carry an “A.P. number” which can give you a lot of information if you’re so inclined to parse the number and do the research.
Frankly, I’m not.
BUT if you must know, the AP number is like an Internet IP address, but with five sets of numbers rather than four, separated by spaces rather than dots.
The first number indicates the region, the second the village or town, the third number is the estate, the fourth is the barrel or bottling, and the last number is the year that the wine was tasted before bottling.
Of course, you have to know what all these numbers mean, or else it’s like E.T. looking at a can of beer. And we know what happend to him.
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