Everyone loves that feeling of dropping the perfectly timed piece of trivia to sound like an expert. Plus, you never know when you'll end up on Jeopardy! Next time you're with friends or family drinking wine, here are 25 fun facts that will make you sound like a master-somm!

1. One glass of wine contains juice from one cluster of grapes. There are roughly 75 grapes in a cluster.

2. One grape vine produces 10 bottles.

3. 80% of tasting wine is olfactory. To really experience the wine, put your nose right in the glass and take a sniff!

4. Decanting your red wines for an hour has similar affects as letting the wine age in a cellar for year.

5. In ancient Egypt, the ability to store wine until maturity was considered alchemy and was the privilege of only the pharaohs.

6. The average age of a French oak tree harvested for use in creating wine barrels is 170 years.

7. 10,000 varieties of wine grapes exist worldwide.

8. Old World wines are typically named after their geographic locations while New World wines are normally named after different grape varieties.

9. The signing of the Declaration of Independence was toasted with glasses of Madeira.

10. Yes, wine is made with grapes, but NOT with the typical grapes you would find at the grocery store. Table grapes have thinner skins, have less acidity and less sugar as wine grapes.

11. Ancient Romans believed that seasoning was more important than the main flavor of wine. They often added fermented fish sauce, garlic, lead and absinthe.

12. The word “sommelier” is an old French word meaning butler or an officer in charge of provisions, derived from the Old Provençal saumalier, or pack-animal driver.

13. Icewine grapes get picked by hand in the middle of the night when the temperature has reached -8* for three nights in a row.

14. The country of Georgia is known as the “birthplace of wine.”

15. About 800 gallons of wine are produced from one acre in a vineyard. That’s about 350 cases of wine.

16. There is a winery in every state in the USA. Get your roadtrips planned!

17. White wine gets darker with age and red wine gets lighter with age.

18. A lot of golfers like wine. Sir Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, Ernie Els, and Jack Nicklaus all have wine labels.

19. Poor soil tends to produce better wines than fertile soil. The vines should struggle, producing a more concentrated flavor as a result.

20. There are about forty-nine million bubbles in a bottle of Champagne.

21. Wine has about the same number of calories as the same amount of grape juice.

22. The French used oil-soaked rags to seal wine bottles. Greeks and Romans used a layer of olive oil. It wasn’t until the 1780s that corks came into common use to seal wine bottles. Consequently, this made bottle aging possible.

23. In 1922, King Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened. The grave had buried wine jars. It was found that those jars were extensively labeled, mentioning the manufacturing year, winemaker’s name and additional comments like ‘very good wine’. The labeling was as good as today’s laws of wine labeling in many countries.

24. Humans have been cultivating grapes for 8,000 years—since before recorded history. 

25. California is the fourth-largest wine producer in the world, just behind France, Italy, and Spain.

Much like drinking wine, use these in moderation! Cheers!