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Price (in $U.S.) of Franzia’s official box wine Halloween costume available for purchase on their website. The boxed wine giant has created wearable boxes of their Franzia Chillable Red wine and Franzia Sunset Blush wine. The costumes are made of soft-sided material (an improvement on DIY cardboard versions) and have little spouts on the side. In the past, Franzia provided How-To Make Your Own instructions on its site, including downloadable templates. Ok, but do you have to be 21 to order?

Which of the following was one of the parents of chardonnay?

A. Semillon

B. Marsanne

C. Chenin blanc

D. Pinot noir

In Burgundy, during the early Middle Ages, chardonnay arose as a seedling―a natural cross of the noble red grape of Burgundy, pinot noir, with the white grape, gouais blanc (GOO-ay BLAHNK) , thought to have been brought to eastern France by the Romans from Croatia. DNA testing in 1999 uncovered the unorthodox parentage, a shock to the international wine community at the time, as gouais blanc is considered so mediocre that several French districts tried to ban it and it is no longer even cultivated in France.

“A ‘frappé’ is a drink at McDonald’s. Starbucks does not have ‘frappés.’ If you order a ‘frappé’ instead of a Frappuccino, you will sound stupid and your barista will judge you, no questions asked.”

—Starbuck’s barista Brian Beckwith
as quoted in Spoonuniversity.com Whew. Who says somms are snooty?

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