Stop and smell the rosé.
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All grape juice (red and white) is actually clear.
When I first heard this, I was pretty tripped up. I had always thought that red grapes make red juice, which becomes red wine, and white grapes produce white wine. The truth is that all grape juice is clear. Red wine gets its color because the juice stays in contact with the skin of the grapes during fermentation. The longer a winemaker keeps the skin in contact with the juice, the darker the resulting wine. Same goes for rosé, which is typically made by keeping the skins in contact with the juice for a short period of time.
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There are over a thousand different grapes in the world used to make wine.
I used to think there were a few dozen grapes used to make wine — the usual suspects that you typically see on a wine list like cabernet sauvignon, pinot noir, and chardonnay. Suffice to say...I was a bit off. There are over 1,000 different grapes that are commercially used to make wine. Just in Italy alone, there are hundreds of grapes I'd never heard of before — names like Rondinella, Grechetto, and Pignolo. That means there are a whooole lotta wines to try out there.
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