• According to El Instituto Nacional de Vitivinicultura at the close of the 2010 Argentina had 228,000 Hectares (564,000 acres) under vine, 26.175 vineyards and 1332 Wineries.
• Chile’s signature grape, the Carmenere, is the deepest and darkest of all red grapes and needs a long growing season to reach its fullest potential. Area under Vine 20,000 Acres.
• Argentina is 5th world's largest wine producer and the 7 largest exporter.
  
• Selections Mondiales DES Vins in June 2010 in Quebec awarded one of the 4 Great Gold Medals to Uruguay’s H. Stagnari with their 'Old Tannat 2007'
• Cipreses Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc from Maria Luz Marin of Casa Marin in Chile is the most highly regarded example of this Variety in S. America
• In the first 5 months of 2010 Argentina exported 105,000 Litres of Wine to the USA
  
• In the highly respected Blind Berlin Tasting held in New York May 2010. Chiles Errazuriz’ KAI 2006 was voted the Top wine, followed by Opus One 2006.
• The largest cork tree in the world is in Portugal, it produces over one ton of raw cork, enough to cork 100,000 bottles.
• Chile's vineyards are planted with un-grafted rootstock: a rare phenomenon in modern wine production.
• It is proven fact that conglomerate corks do not seal the wine as effectively as a screw cap. It is also likely to have more Sulfur Dioxide added at the bottling stage.
• Why can cheap wine cause a headache? histidine that is contained in grapes and pips, are released by over pressing, to produce volume.
• This is a compound humans are generally allergic too.
• In Chile the most southerly planted and producing wines are in the Bio Bio Valley. Experimental plantings are being tried close to Osorno, 1000 Kms south of Santiago.
• The word "toast," meaning a wish of good health, started in ancient Rome, where a piece of toasted bread was dropped into wine.
• "Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it."Shakespeare, Othello.
• Concha y Toro of Chile is one of the largest wine producers and vine acreage owners in the world.
• The pressure in a bottle of champagne is about 90 pounds per square inch. That's about three times the pressure in car tires.
• In France between Mid 1960’s and the mid 1990’s the total area of Land under vines fell more than 50%.
• Nicolas Joley a highly respected follower of Bio dynamics with his vineyard in the Loire only works the fields when the moon is in Leo, Aires or Sagittarius.
• Radio frequency Microchips are being added to Icon wine labels to combat forgeries and to authenticate storing conditions.
• Unfiltered wines develop greater complexity in the bottle because essential constituents are not removed from them.
• In the Mid 1980’s in the USA, Wine coolers (Wine, Fruit Juice and Water) accounted for 20% of all wines.
• Wine used in wine tastings in Utah must not be swallowed!
• "No thing more excellent nor more valuable than wine was ever granted mankind by God.".Plato, 400 BC.
• As late as the mid-17th century, the French wine makers did not use corks. The corkscrew was only invented in 1860.
• Bonarda is the second most planted fine grape in Argentina, It is not the same as Bonardas of Piamonte in Italy in the USA it is known as Charbono.

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