Garvin says, adding that the business, minus the Sinatra piece of it, was sold last year. The 2001 Merlot we had was made after the two friends parted ways, Mr. The Sinatra Merlot was an excellent exception, but, sadly, it is no longer made. Nor did we like any of the Jerry Garcia wines we tried.
We tried several different Elvis wines from the Graceland Cellars line and didn't like any of those. We have never much liked the well-known Marilyn Merlot brand and we didn't this time, either. We also found that live people make better wines than dead ones. Indeed, we tasted 10 Chardonnays and didn't like any of them. We found the reds, in general, better than the whites. We tasted the wines in blind flights over several nights and we have good news: They were surprisingly tasty, and some were excellent. Garvin told us, they wrote Old Blue Eyes' family to tell them what they'd done and thus began a partnership of sorts in which more wine would be bottled - 2,000 cases at its peak - and a portion of the proceeds given to the Frank Sinatra Foundation. With vintage Sinatra songs wafting through Kahn Winery, which they opened in 1996, they made one barrel of Cabernet Franc, which they called Cab Frank. Sinatra died in 1998 to make a wine in his honor. Two winemaking buddies, Christian Garvin and Andrew Kahn, longtime Frank Sinatra fans, decided the day after Mr. Scaggs said his first vintage was 2003, but he wasn't crazy about it, so he's waiting to see how the 2004 "sits in the bottle for a few months" and said he may release it - around 200 cases - later this year.Īnd, of course, death alone is no reason why stars can't be part of the process. "This is Boz Scaggs," said the voice on the other end. Our assistant, Melanie Grayce West, heard that popular '70s singer Boz Scaggs made wine in California, so she called around to try to find some. But it is clear that some celebrities are more involved than others. We also believe that Paris Hilton personally harvests materials from sperm whales to make her namesake perfume. In most cases involving a live celebrity, the winery claims that the star is intimately involved in every aspect of the winemaking. We did not include Coppola wines they have done so well in our general blind tastings that we can simply stipulate that these are good wines across a wide varietal spectrum. While many wineries are owned by famous people, we only bought wines in which a celebrity's picture or name, or some version of the name, appeared on the label. In some cases, we had to order directly from the winery and in other cases we had to look hard to find wines from dealers who specialize in unusual orders. A few, such as Greg Norman, are widely available.
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We found at least one wine from everyone mentioned above, plus quite a few others - more than 50 bottles in all. The question is: How are they? When we conducted a tasting of animal labels a couple of years ago - we dubbed them critter wines, a name that has stuck - we found most of them, as we put it then, "beastly and fowl." How about paparazzi wines? Are the pretty labels concealing ugly wine? We conducted an extensive tasting to get the answer. Some companies now specialize in putting celebrities' pictures on wine labels. We seem to see a new paparazzi wine every day. Lewis, the race-car driver, whose wines are very well-regarded, might say. An Accelerating TrendĬlearly this trend has hit the slipstream, as Mr. That will probably be her first release, along with a Chardonnay.
We're told she's particularly interested in making a great rosé. And Martha Stewart has been quietly mixing up her own line of Sonoma County wines. Gallo now has MacMurray Ranch, named for actor Fred MacMurray, who used to own the land where the grapes are grown. However, when Costco, Gallo and Martha Stewart all get involved, you know a trend is coming ashore, so consider this: Costco will soon be carrying a line of wines with Mick Fleetwood, drummer and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac. The director Francis Ford Coppola started his winery in Napa 30 years ago now it's one of the biggest in the U.S. Around the same time, we had our first Smothers Brothers wine and a Muscat Canelli from Pat Paulsen. We bought our first bottle of Always Elvis, with a shiny label outside and bad Italian wine inside, in 1980. Of course, there have been some paparazzi wines for a long time.
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