Found April 20, 2012 on IMAGE CPR: Yardbarker Blogger Network

You don’t necessarily think that NASCAR racing and wine go together, but it turns out that NASCAR driver Danica Patrick is quite a wine connoisseur.

She has more than 1,000 bottles of coveted global vintages inside her horseshoe-shaped wine cellar in her home in Scottsdale, Ariz.

"Well, now, if you watch (the movie) 'Sideways,' it's not the night that makes the wine, it's the wine that makes the night," Patrick said.

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