Hello,I tried to look for information on wines made by stars or vips, what Ifound is as follows please tell me if you know more:Sting ( seams he produces a Chianti wine and an olive oil )do you know name of winery and location? address?gerard depardieu seams he produces wine in France and in the island ofPantelleria in Italia, what more you know about it? winery name?address?Mick Hucknall ( Simply Red ) produces wine too, what winery andaddress?Jarno Trulli ( F-1 driver) produces Montepulciano D'abruzzo name ofwinery seams to be: Podere CastoraniIf you know of any other stars or vips that produce wine, please letme know.Thanks,Mario

On 12/4/03 5:40 AM, in article snipped-for-privacy@postWell, Francis Ford Coppola for one. I know there are more in California.

On 12/7/03 1:45 AM, in articlegUAAb.1205$ - yes - thanks!

wine made by stars or vips ?

Midlife 22 years ago

in article tFcAb.38611$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com, Edwin Pawlowski at snipped-for-privacy@snet.net wrote on 12/5/03 8:11 PM:

Just curious about the 'beyond-wine' credentials of these two men to make them VIPs in the sense of the original question. I did a Google search and see that both are influential in the field of home winemaking, but are they just "normal folk" or corporate tycoons, or what? Making great wine is enough to make someone a VIP for me, but are they in the broader sense as well??

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A.J. Rawls 22 years ago

That makes them stars and vips... People that sing, act or do other things are pretty transient and don't mean much in winemaking circles

Later, A.J.

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John Zinni 22 years ago

Damn, should have been using thought-check rather then spell-check!

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Pinky 22 years ago

Shouldn't that be "Here Here"? -- but I agree!

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Greg Cook 22 years ago

Um - yes - thanks!

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Paul S. Remington 22 years ago

Jack Keller must be a VIP in the field to land on the cover if Jon Iverson's winemaking book. In other fields, I'm sure his family would consider him a VIP. I guess that would make all of us a VIP in one camp or another. :-)

VIP often does not translate into being a monetary giant.

-Paul

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grazzc 22 years ago

Nick Faldo has just released his first vintage of Faldo surprisingly enough. Its not too bad really, Greg Norman has given his name to a range of wines from Hardy's (?) Sir Cliff Richard has a winery in Portugal, that supposedly is halfway decent Francis Ford Coppola has Niebaum-Coppola Randy Lewis (Indy 500 driver) owns Lewis Cellars, Napa

grazza

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Ray 22 years ago

Emeril Lagasse has his own brand of wine out, though I have never seen it on the shelves, and he has shown the basics of home winemaking on his TV show.

Ray

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Riccardo Margheri 22 years ago

A couple of year ago, if I remember well, In Italy we heard news about an estate bought by Italian President of the Council of Ministers Silvio Berlusconi in the brunello di Montalcino area. It should begin to produce in two or three years. Heard news that Michael Schumacher (F1 world champion) should have bought in Maremma (south of Tuscany). Movie artists and journalists famous in Italy produce their own wine.

Regards Riccardo

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