Wine facts for kids
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Wine is an alcoholic drink. The word wine is usually used to talk about drinks made from the juice of grapes, although people sometimes call alcoholic drinks made from the juice of other fruits (such as plums or blackberries) "wine". This article only deals with wine made from grapes.
Wine is made by the fermentation of the sugar in grapes. There are two main types of wine, red wine and white wine. Red wine is made from red grapes in contact with their skins, and white wine is made from red and white grapes, but without any skin contact. Rosé wine is made by leaving red grapes in skin contact for a very short time. The colour comes only from the skin, so if you have short skin contact, the wine will not turn red but only "pink" (rose wine). Wine sometimes has bubbles in it; this wine is called sparkling wine. The most popular sparkling wines are champagne, which comes from France and spumante, from Italy.
People have been making wine for about 5000 years.
Wine is a popular drink in many countries. The countries that drink the most wine (using numbers from the year 2000) are:
However, if you make a list of countries where the average person drinks the most wine, the list is different:
Luxembourg, France, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, and Slovenia.
Wine is made in many countries. The countries that make the most wine (using 2015 numbers) are:
Italy, France, Spain, USA, Argentina, Chile, Australia, South Africa, China and Germany.
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Images for kids
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16th-century wine press
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Bearded satyr, emptying a wine-skin, Arretine ware, Roman, Augustan Period 31 BC–AD 14
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The Areni-1 cave in Armenia is the world's oldest known winery
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Pressing wine after the harvest; Tacuinum Sanitatis, 14th century
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Han dynasty tomb brick showing workers brewing alcohol
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Grape vineyard
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Wine grapes on a vine
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Italian Moscato d'Asti, a DOCG wine
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Judging color is the first step in tasting a wine.
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Château Margaux, a First Growth from the Bordeaux region of France, is highly collectible.
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Grapes fermenting to make wine in Western Australia
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Wine Exports by Country (2014) from Harvard Atlas of Economic Complexity
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Reduction of red wine for a sauce by cooking it on a stovetop. It is called a reduction because the heat boils off some of the water, leaving a more concentrated, wine-flavoured sauce.
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All alcohol is prohibited under Islamic law, although there has been a long tradition of drinking wine in some Islamic areas, especially in Iran.
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Assorted wine corks
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Oak wine barrels
See also
In Spanish: Vino para niños
