Are celebrity wine-makers destroying an ancient art?

Aug 29, 2016

(NYPost) - The wave of celebrities who dabble in winemaking, led by the likes of Trudy and Sting, Angelina and Brad, is turning tidal. Summer brought the launch of Drew Barrymore’s signature rosé and Roger Daltry’s champagne (it marks The Who Hits 50 tour). Others who’ve attached their known names to wine releases this year are Twin Peaks’ Kyle MacLachlan, “Dip it Low” singer Christina Milian, and Grammy-winning Zac Brown, who debuted two “serious” red wines, proving that not all country crooners stick with whiskey and beer. And then there’s Tituss Burgess, the gay bard of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, out with a new wine, who may be the first person to free-associate lyrics of an ode to Peeno Noir and his…well, you know.

Now comes a photo-heavy book aimed at catching the wave: “California Celebrity Vineyards,” in which Nick Wise and Linda Sunshine profile sixteen notables who want to not just drink wine but put their name on the label. They range from race car drivers (Mario Andretti and Randy Lewis) to golfers (Jack Nicklaus and Luke Donald) to departed television actors of yesteryear (Fess Parker and Raymond Burr) to silver screen figures (Frances Ford Coppola and Kurt Russell).

Vineyards aren’t, and can’t be, celebrities; they are vine-covered plots of earth, and they all look pretty much alike. Yet the grapes that come from them, once they become wine, vary as widely in personality as the celebs who are the actual subject of this book.


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