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Well, there’s some good news and some bad news regarding our recent Wine FAQ contest, which officially ended on Monday.
The good news is that we have a winner – Stuart Yaniger, who sent us two great questions:
1. What’s all this sulfite stuff? Is it true that only American/French/Australian/Slavokian wines use them?
Every wine has sulfites – yeast produce sulfur compounds along with alcohol, carbon dioxide and other substances. Most wineries can or do add sulfites to help preserve wine because it resists spoilage
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Scott Krinsky, courtesy NBC
While Anne has been hobnobbing with the folks at the twice-yearly Television Critics Association Press Tour, she’s been checking in with people to find out what their Wine FAQs are. After all, we’re pulling together our Wine FAQ page and want to know what everyone else wants to know about wine.
Scott Krinsky plays Nerd Herder Jeff on the spy comedy Chuck on NBC. Fun thing is, he likes wine.
“I’m a big malbec fan,” he told Anne. “I love malbec. They have a nice little spice to them, kind of
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Wallace Langham, Courtesy CBS
It’s really interesting how many people have questions about wine – even folks who don’t drink or can’t drink at all.
Take Wallace Langham, who plays lab tech Hodge on CSI.
“I stopped drinking wine,” he told Anne at a party at the TV Critics Press Tour. “I stopped drinking altogether. But I can think of one. Ah. Is it all right to drink rosé all year round?”
Langham was asking on behalf of his wife, who loves rosé. We say you go, Mrs. Langham (assuming that’s your name). Rosé
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Kunal Nayyar, courtesy CBS
A cool concatenation of circumstances are happening this week and next. Anne is attending the Television Critics Association Press Tour, because Anne has another life as a TV critic (you can check out her TV blog at YourFamilyViewer.com). So, in honor of the OddBallGrape Wine FAQ contest, she’s asking some of the actors she’s hanging around their Wine FAQ.
Up today is Kunal Nayyar – Raj on The Big Bang Theory on CBS. (Anne did get a chance to interview Jim Parsons – aka Sheldon – but didn’t remember the
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Check out http://www.oddballgrape.com for contest details. Great odds of winning!
Good PR move by Durell Vineyard – source to OBG profilee Three Sticks Winery.http://tinyurl.com/27jwbo3
An OBG up and comer – Consensio Cellars from Ventura – took a Double Gold at the SF Chronicle competition for a 2008 Tempranillo. WTG Shaun!
Something new and unusual coming to McLaren Vale http://tinyurl.com/27yz7yk
Rosé is more than a four letter word these days
Is Grenache finally gaining respect? Will it be spoiled by success? Hearty varietal has found a home in California http://shar.es/mCi4a
