{"id":2195,"date":"2021-03-22T21:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2021-10-26T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T04:51:57","slug":"drink-wine-like-your-favorite-tv-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cellarswineclub.com\/drink-wine-like-your-favorite-tv-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink Wine Like Your Favorite TV Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cI also brought wine, but this is for me. I\u2019m drinking the whole bottle.\u201d \u2014 Olivia Pope, Scandal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like Alicia, Olivia Pope drinks large glasses of red liberally. Her taste, however, is a bit more refined: colleague Quinn Perkins says Olivia\u2019s \u201ctell\u201d is \u201cRare, complex, fantastic red wine.\u201d While the specific wines Olivia name-drops, like\u00a0\u201994 du Bellay, are fake, we know she indulges in French wines \u201cthat will bring tears to your eyes\u201d from regions like Bordeaux and Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape. Her penchant for eating bowls of popcorn with her bottle of choice, however, leaves us surprised she never considers the classic pairing of popcorn and\u00a0Champagne.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis will make sense if I get more wine.\u201d \u2013 Alicia Florrick,\u00a0<\/strong>The Good Wife<\/strong><\/p>\n

Red wine, generously poured, is the go-to beverage for The Good Wife\u2019s resilient and fiercely smart Alicia Florrick. It\u2019s clear from her litigation wardrobe Alicia\u2019s a woman of refined taste, but she doesn\u2019t claim to be a particular connoisseur when it comes to wine, appearing to note little of the profile when she drinks. She\u2019s been known to quaf Merlot, a grape that lends soft mouthfeel and low tannins that make it easy to get along with.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne does not simply twist out the cork.\u201d \u2014 Frasier Crane, Frasier<\/strong>
Like Oliva, Frasier Crane often waxes poetic about French AOC\u2019s like Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape and C\u00f4tes du Rh\u00f4ne, and his brother, Niles, is always right there with him. In Season Two, for example, the sibling psychiatrists open a short-lived French restaurant with a wine focus, and in the seventh season the brothers battle in a blind tasting for the title of \u201cCorkmaster.\u201d Frasier, who often celebrates special occasions with Champagne, was best known, however, for stocking his Seattle apartment\u2019s home bar with sherry and a collection of suitably petite glassware, long before the modern resurgence of sherry in the craft beverages movement. But what wine will he not abide? The snobbish brothers once diagnosed Frasier\u2019s producer, Roz, as having below-average intelligence because she \u201cordered a bottle of white zinfandel!\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI drink and I know things.\u201d \u2014 Tyrion Lannister, Game Of Thrones<\/strong>
\u201cMore wine.\u201d \u2014 Cersei Lannister, Game Of Thrones<\/strong>
There are many issues the two most devious Lannister siblings don\u2019t agree on, but one thing that brings them together is their love of wine, particularly Dornish varieties produced in the arid Southern region of fictional Westeros. Dorne is known for great wine, and is likely producing styles akin to\u00a0Spanish reds\u00a0like Tempranillo, Monastrell (the grape called Mourv\u00e8dre in France), Garnacha (also known as Grenache), and Bobal. Indeed, author George R. R. Martin has confirmed that Dorne was heavily influenced by\u00a0Spain.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m thankful for science\u2026 specifically the fermentation process.\u201d \u2014Vanessa Baxter, Last Man Standing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanessa Baxter talks a lot about wine, but rarely about what specifically she\u2019s drinking. Her glass, however, is almost always filled with\u00a0white wine, and given the shape of her regularly green bottles, it\u2019s a good bet her drink of choice is chardonnay or viognier, particularly because those are two grapes often grown locally in her home state of Colorado.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you\u2019re gonna be part of this family, you\u2019re gonna learn to love wine.\u201d \u2014 Jules Cobb, Cougar Town<\/strong>
Anyone who\u2019s seen Cougar Town knows it\u2019s about two things: friendship and \u201cpounding grape,\u201d which is protagonist Jules Cobb\u2019s slang for drinking wine. No episode goes by without Jules and her Cul-de-Sac Crew enjoying\u00a0large quantities of wine, usually red. (White, Jules says, is reserved as \u201cthinking wine,\u201d because of its lower alcohol content.) Unlike Julianna Margulies, who sipped\u00a0Welch\u2019s grape juice\u00a0as Alicia on The Good Wife, Cougar Town star Courtney Cox was fond of method acting, often taking a gulp of the real stuff from one of her progressively larger oversized wine glasses:\u00a0Big Joe,\u00a0Big Carl,\u00a0Big Lou,\u00a0Big Tippi, and\u00a0Big Chuck. Creator Bill Lawrence confirmed the wine on set was authentic \u201cmore often than you think.\u201d While Lawrence admits he missed an opportunity by not creating a Cougar Town brand of wine, he says the cast was thrilled that wineries\u00a0sent free bottles\u00a0their way. A keen eye can pick out some of the actual producers they enjoyed:\u00a0Here, Jules drains multiple glasses of Brassfield Estate Winery\u2019s Eruption through straws, and\u00a0here\u00a0you can spot a bottle of Orin Swift\u2019s The Prisoner ready for patio-drinking. Cougar Town\u2019s love of wine was so contagious, some of their jokes became reality: When Jules and Andy repped a fake novelty wine item called the\u00a0Guzzle Buddy, for example, it inspired a\u00a0real product.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ll get plastered on a snifter of sherry.\u201d \u201cAh, paradise.\u201d \u2014 Cora and Robert Crawley, Downton Abbey<\/strong>
Unlike Cougar Town, Downton Abbey seized the opportunity to market its own\u00a0branded wine collection. Frasier would perhaps be pleased to know he and the Crawley household share similar taste in wine \u2014 a tipple of sherry or a glass of Champagne to honor celebratory occasions, and French Bordeaux during many a meal. Over the course of the series, Mr. Carson the butler can frequently be spied performing wine duties such as meticulously decanting bottles through cheesecloth to strain out wine sediment. While\u00a0British bubbly\u00a0has recently come into popularity, Britain was not a wine-producing country in the early 1900s, so any sparkling offerings would have been imported; Veuve Clicquot is notably name-dropped when it\u2019s poured both upstairs and down in honor of valet John Bates being cleared as a murder suspect.<\/p>\n

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