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Number of countries where the minimum legal drinking age is 21. This list includes Iraq, Sri Lanka, and Equatorial Guinea, as well as the U.S. However, for more than 100 countries (including most of the developed countries in the world), the minimum legal drinking age is lower–18 or 19. And some countries (Bolivia, Burundi, Indonesia) have no legal minimum drinking age at all.

What country has the world’s most southern vineyards?

A. New Zealand

B. South Africa

C. Chile

D. Argentina

If you thought the answer was New Zealand, you would have been right until just recently. For 50 years, New Zealand’s Black Ridge Vineyard (at latitude 45.15 degrees S) held the title Most Southern Vineyard in the World. But Argentina now has a winery that has surpassed it. As of 2021, the world’s most southerly vineyard is Bodega Otronia (latitude 45.33 degrees S) in Chubut Province deep in Argentina’s Patagonia Extrema, a region once known only for mining and sheep. Over the next few years, the title will be an ongoing contest between Argentina and Chile, as both countries push viticulture further and further south toward the cold tip of the South American continent. (Sorry, New Zealand).

Crafty Opossum Downs Craft Spirit

According to The Drinks Business, this merry marsupial snuck into Cash’s, a Florida liquor store, the day after Thanksgiving, broke a bottle of bourbon then drank the entire contents. The brand was not revealed. Found… Continue reading

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