hi I'm Craig welcome to the salon this
is Mental Floss on YouTube and did you
know that wine has been around for at
least 9,000 years historians say that
this was when the earliest vineyards
were arranged in the Middle East which
spread around the Mediterranean through
the Phoenicians in the Etruscans the
French students started copying the
winemaking process which is why they
sometimes get credit for inventing wine
and that's the first of many facts about
wine that I'm gonna share with you today
and I'm gonna do this without being
pretentious at all
I am wine drunk though
the world's oldest bottle of wine is
over sixteen hundred years old you can
be found at a museum in Germany it was
buried nearby and 350 C e then found
again in 1867 Prince Charles has a nest
in Martin that runs on biofuel made out
of wine
Queen Elizabeth gave Charles the
original car when he turned 21 then in
2008 it was converted to run on former
wine some historians believe that the
Roman Empire fell thanks in part to lead
poisoning if that's true why I probably
had a lot to do with it
the Romans cook grape juice and lead
pots to sweeten their wine and to poison
their wine according to the wine
Institute where I would like to work
Vatican City drinks the most wine per
capita at 74 liters of wine per person
per year it's a full two times more wine
per capita than Italy if California was
its own country it would be the fourth
largest producer of wine after only
France Italy and Spain speaking of which
in 1976 there was a blind wine tasting
in France which has been dubbed the
judgment of Paris nine French wine
experts judged a bunch of wines from
both California and France and wound up
raiding Californian wine as best in both
the white and the red wine categories
after the results were published in Time
magazine the French wine industry banned
the events organizer from participating
in their wine tasting tour Plato wrote
that why should only be allowed in
moderation between the ages of eighteen
and thirty after he had forty it'd be a
free-for-all because he believed that
wine was rejuvenating in older people
I'm looking forward to 40 when the movie
sideways was released consumers started
buying according to the main characters
taste less people bought Merlot than
usual and more people bought Pinot Noir
experts call this the sideways effect no
word yet on whether Titus and Ramadan
has a similar effect on wine drinkers
Pinot Noir midsize car in 2003 a man
named Richard julen shocked the wine
tasting world at a blind tasting
competition for champagne in Paris at
the event Julien was able to identify
the brand producer and year of 43 out of
50 different champagnes the person who
came in second place was only able to
identify four it's a misconception that
Charles Shaw wine aka to buck chuck is
so cheap because Airlines needed to
dispose of their wine after cork screws
were banned
it also has nothing to do with him
trying to ruin his ex-wife's winery
business though she deserves it so
boring truth is people were drinking
less wine in America so Shaw was able to
sell his for cheap and nowadays they
produce in huge volume and keep all
their prices down it may only cost two
dollars but in 2004 to buck chuck won
the top prize at the 28th annual
Internet
Eastern wine competition it beat out
2,300 wines Hippocrates who's known as
the father of Western medicine
recommended wine as a treatment for many
ailments including diarrhea lethargy and
labor pains he's my favorite doctor in a
1997 experiment researchers alternated
German and French music in a supermarket
for two weeks they found that customers
were more likely to buy French wine when
they were listening to French music and
more likely to buy German wine when
listening to German music white
zinfandel was discovered by accident in
1975 by someone working at sutter home
according to the company a winemaker
took some less concentrated red
Zinfandel grape juice and let it ferment
because he was trying to make a stronger
flavored Zinfandel
he failed some people enjoy mixing red
wine and coke together in Spain the
drink is known as Kelly mojo I learned
this from the Real Housewives of New
Jersey as I learned everything speaking
of wine and coke Michael Jackson used to
drink wine and diet coke cans because he
didn't want his children to see him
drinking ok I'm gonna finish up by
telling you some differences between red
wine and white wine red wines red white
wines why according to a study done by
Cornell University's food and brand lab
wine drinkers typically pour 9% more
into a glass when the wine is white
rather than red I also learned that from
the Real Housewives the general rule you
may know is that red wine goes with red
meat like beef lamb and venison and
white wine goes well with white meat
like poultry and fish then a sweeter
wine works with dessert though a wine
experts recommend you also pay attention
to the sauce and flavoring in the dish
because those rules can change white and
red wine are actually supposed to be
served at different temperatures too
white wine is best at forty five to
fifty degrees Fahrenheit if it's a
fuller white wine though 55 to 60
degrees is better red wine on the other
hand should be at room temperature so 59
to 64 degrees or when I'm in the room 90
because it's hot a red wine glass should
actually have an edge that's angled
slightly inwards this is supposed to
make it easier to smell the wines aromas
as for how it's made both red and white
grapes produce the same colored juice
clear the grape skin is the reason that
red wine is red red grape skins have
several thousand times the anthocyanin
pigments which turn the wine red in
production another notable difference
according to the Mayo Clinic quote the
alcohol and certain substances in red
wine called antioxidants may help
prevent heart disease it's believed that
drinking red wine and moderation might
increase levels of HDL cholesterol which
you might know as the good cholesterol
and by moderation they mean up to one
glass of wine per day for women and up
to two for men finally I return to the
salon to tell you that in 2001 and
Experian
was conducted with 54 undergraduates who
were studying wine tasting and
winemaking at the University of Bordeaux
the researcher asked them to describe
one glass of white wine and one glass of
red wine they didn't know that the glass
of red wine was actually white wine dyed
red not one of the 54 students realized
that they were drinking white wine they
described it as having all the features
of red at least they weren't graduate
students thanks for watching Mental
Floss on YouTube which is made with the
help of all of these winos and as we say
in my hometown DFP Dr don't forget to
drink responsibly or drink read I like
red wine better than white
bye
you