Buying Wine Trivia Part II
Buying Wine - with Some Knowledge of the Grapes!
Following on from my post last week on how many grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine, here's another comment from a winery:
"Talking averages, wineries generally can produce 800 bottles of wine from every tonne of grapes processed. The actual figure varies widely depending on the grape variety and how much irrigation is used prior to harvest in an attempt to go for quantity instead of quality.
This works out to 1.25 kg of grapes per bottle, again with a very wide range.
Bunch sizes vary wildly, but let's say 500g to 1kg per bunch as a generalisation.
This means you would need 2.5 to 5 bunches of grapes per bottle.
A wild guess would be 25-50 grapes (berries) per bunch , which would mean 63 to 250 grapes per bottle, depending on the variety and size of the berries."
So now when you're buying wine, you'll have an appreciation for how many grapes are in a bottle of wine. Quite amazing when you think of it!
Who would have thought that buying wine in a 750 ml bottle is like buying 2.5 to 5 bunches of grapes! :-)
Following on from my post last week on how many grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine, here's another comment from a winery:
"Talking averages, wineries generally can produce 800 bottles of wine from every tonne of grapes processed. The actual figure varies widely depending on the grape variety and how much irrigation is used prior to harvest in an attempt to go for quantity instead of quality.
This works out to 1.25 kg of grapes per bottle, again with a very wide range.
Bunch sizes vary wildly, but let's say 500g to 1kg per bunch as a generalisation.
This means you would need 2.5 to 5 bunches of grapes per bottle.
A wild guess would be 25-50 grapes (berries) per bunch , which would mean 63 to 250 grapes per bottle, depending on the variety and size of the berries."
So now when you're buying wine, you'll have an appreciation for how many grapes are in a bottle of wine. Quite amazing when you think of it!
Who would have thought that buying wine in a 750 ml bottle is like buying 2.5 to 5 bunches of grapes! :-)
2 Comments:
wow, interesting. I never knew!
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Anonymous, at 7:57 PM
I can tell some friends some important trivia now! I'll be the smartest wine guru there! haha
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Anonymous, at 7:58 PM
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