Alpana Singh
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Alpana Singh (born 1976) is a sommelier and local television personality in Chicago, Illinois. She is a first-generation Indian American, born and raised in Monterey, California. Her parents are Fiji Indians who migrated from Fiji to Carlifornia.[1]
Singh passed the Court of Master Sommeliers' advanced certification test at age 21.[2] In 2003, she passed the final exam[1] to become the youngest person ever to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier.[3] (The master sommelier exam has an approximate 3% pass rate.[2])
Beginning at age 23, she served as sommelier at Chicago's Everest.[2] She is currently Director of Wine and Spirits for Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, a large Chicagoland chain of restaurants.[1]
Singh has become especially well-known for hosting the local PBS television station WTTW's restaurant review show, Check, Please!. She replaced its original host, Amanda Puck, in October 2003. Singh is also the author of the 2006 book Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine, and Having Great Relationships (ISBN 0-89733-546-5).
In 2006, Singh married Charles Blackstone.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d Profile at Master Sommeliers.org
- ^ a b c White, Sara D. "40 Under 40" profile, Chicago Business, 2001
- ^ "Sommelier Prodigy - Alpana Singh", Tastemakers profile at Food & Wine, September 2003
http://www.alpanasingh.com - Alpana's homepage
