By the Numbers...
 
5

Clusters of grapes needed to make a bottle of wine

390

Number of grapes in five clusters

50

Percentage of American households that do not own a corkscrew

77°

The optimum temperature for the photosynthesis of grape leaves

393,000,000

Gallons of California wine sold in the United States in 2000

565,000,000

Gallons of all wine consumed in the United States in the same year

$19 billion

The money this country’s consumers spent on wine that year

3.3 million

Tons of wine grapes crushed in California in 2001

6 bottles

Amount of wine in a barrel saved from evaporation each year by keeping barrels in a cave instead of in a cellar

700

Wineries in California when Prohibition began

800

Wineries in California in 1995

30

Minutes a grape can endure at 31 degrees before freezing

5,000

Estimated number of grape varieties in the world