Snooth Talk: Cold Duck

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: Cold Duck; Posted by fibo86, Jan 11.; Can anyone give me any personal experiences with this wine or tasting notes? I've just found out that appart from gamay your native grapes hold the most amount of resveritol (maybe incorrect spelling?), so naturally I'm curious, as they say that the only wine made as a blend with these particular grape is Cold Duck?

1665 3027: Reply by Philip, Jan 12.; I'd not heard of it, but from what I can see its a mix of California sparkling wine with New York wines (which are the native grapes).

Are there no other wines available in your area that are made from the native US grapes?

2517 1738: Reply by Gregory Dal Piaz, Jan 12.; It's an old school classic. Off dry sparkling red wine that was very popular when I was young. There were even commercials on TV for the stuff which was essentially sparkling, alcohol grape juice. Undeniably delicious! Manischewitz kosher wines are made with Concord grapes. They might be available but they are sweet and unctuous. Not your typical table wines.

1528 759: Reply by RBoulanger, Jan 12.; I thought that Malbec and Tannat had the highest concentrations of Resveratrol.

1528 759: Reply by RBoulanger, Jan 12.; Pardon me, I got procyanidins confused with resveratrol.

If you watch this excellent presentation by Roger Corder, you'll see why hunting for wines with high resveratrol levels is pointless anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q9lQljJXNA

0 390: Reply by GregT, Jan 13.; A big deal in Detroit in the 1960s, and someone there had claimed to invent it. No idea at all if there is any truth to that. Also was referenced on Frasier - one of his Dad's girlfriends once asked "Hey, have you ever tried Cold Duck?" and of course Niles and Frasier just rolled their eyes. It was a blast from the past then, even more now.

Hey - I bet it's prime for a comeback.

9 232: Reply by fibo86, Jan 13.; The reason I ask is I had a customer that was being ridiculous, he went around to every grog shop in the area harassing shop attendants to find out about resveratrol because he had a sliver of information. Instead of talking to a chemical engineer. However I had been on an interesting CSIRO website (Aust science thingy) that was just saying that the grapes that contained the highest amounts of this particular antioxident were the Lambrusca and concord falls into this catagory. As Greg says " They might be available but they are sweet and unctuous. Not your typical table wines" . So I was wondering if there was something out there in case he comes back, so at least I have done my research and have as much information as possible.
As the information I supplied put him on the back foot last time and now the talk from the doc will give me more to suprise him with.

Thank you all