1956 Vintage Year Birthday Wine Bottle Card

Description

Vintage Year Card 1956 Wine Bottle. Each card contains intricate foil, fact about wine and a brief history of what happened the year you were born!

Front Text: Happy Birthday 1956 Vintage. The best hand-picked birthday wishes

Inside Text: From the Vine... Napa Valley is red wine country, with 27,000 plus acres in red grapes versus 11,000 acres in white. Leading the red grapes is Cabernet Sauvignon, with 14,000 acres, while Chardonnay is king of the whites with 9,000 acres. Most Cabernet Sauvignons are blended with other grapes, primarily Merlot. To use the grape variety on the label, the winemaker must use at least 75% Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. 

In 1956

• Dwight D. Eisenhower is President
  
• Richard M. Nixon is Vice-President
• Grace Kelly weds Prince Rainier II
• A Plymouth Fury costs $2,866.00; a washing machine, $69.95.
• Frist Midas Muffler shop opens in Macon, GA.
• Salem Cigarettes are introduced
• The first bank drive-up window is used. 
• Oral polio vaccine is unveiled by Albert Sabin
• Auntie Mame and My Fair Lady are on Broadway. High Society and The King and I are in the movies. Peyton Place is a popular book
• Elvis has the #1 hit Heartbreak Hotel
• A perfect no-hitter is pitched in the World Series by Yankee Don Larsen
• Floyd Patterson becomes youngest to win the Heavyweight Boxing Championship
• Also born in 1956--Mel Gibson, David Caruso, Bjorn Borg, Stephanie Zimbalist, Martina Navratilova, Bo Derek

Happy Birthday

Back Text: Life's Essence. Go ahead, indulge yourself with the finest in birthday wishes for that special moment when another year doesn't mean getting older, it means again gracefully. Birthday Wishes 100% by Volume. You can recycle this card, but we prefer you keep it forever. Printed in Canada

Card size: 9 3/16" high by 3 1/8" wide (letter size)

0079.1956