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Golfer Fred Couples Is In The Wine Business

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Golfer Fred Couples and winemaker Mitch Cosentino have gotten into the wine business together, creating Couples & Co, a wine brand from pureCru Napa Valley. Wine Business.com reports that Couples first got into wine when he was in his 20s and started talking about a partnership with Cosentino in 2008. The first two offerings are a Super Tuscan style sangiovese and a Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon blend. The Couples & Co 2006 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon sells for $60 and the Couples & Co 2006 California Sanglovese is $32. Both wines have won several awards at wine competitions. The company will release its first Chardonnay later this month.

Golfer wine is a crowded category some of the golfers with wine labels that we have covered are:

Christie Kerr
Annika Sorenstam
Jack Nicklaus
Nick Faldo
John Daly
Greg Norman

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Boz Scaggs, Winemaker

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Add another musician to the winemaker list. Mellow music maker Boz Scaggs is currently touring around with other 1970s stars Michael McDonald and Donald Fagen on the Dukes of September tour but as the Napa Valley Register reports, he's put down roots in wine country. His wine brand Scaggs Vineyard is a labor of love for Boz and his wife Dominique. They moved to the area in 1996 and decided to plant Rhone varietals on their hillside land. They made their first wine in 2000 and grow the Mourvedre, Grenache and Syrah grapes used in their Rosé and Montage wines. The vineyards, fruit and olive orchards at Scaggs Vineyard have been certified organic since 2005.

The Register article says that the Scaggs sort of happened into the wine business accidentally. At first they drank their own wines and shared them with friends but once they teamed up with winemaker Ken Barnards things started to take off. Scaggs plans to keep the business fairly small and separate from the music world. The Scaggs Rosé has a retail price of $25 and the 2007 Scaggs Vineyard Mt. Veeder Montage sells for $75. Both can be purchased on the Scaggs Vineyard website.

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Cristie Kerr's Curvature Wine

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Golfer Cristie Kerr has become the latest golfer with a wine label. Kerr's wine, Curvature is partnership with Suzanne Pride Bryan, the owner of Pride Mountain Vineyards in St. Helena, California. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reports that the first New York tasting of Kerr's wine took place Monday at Country Club of Rochester after her Sunday win of the the LPGA Championship presented by Wegmans. The first edition is a 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, with a production of 350 cases.

A 2007 Cabernet with a run of 700 cases will be unveiled in October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Kerr's mother, Linda, is a breast cancer survivor and Kerr has also partnered with Kwiat on a line of pink gold, pink sapphire and diamond jewelry that benefits her Birdies for Breast Cancer charity. Kerr also donates $50 to her Birdies for Breast Cancer charity every time she birdies a hole. A 1.5 liter magnum sells for $165. Three bottles in a wooden box autographed by Kerr sell for $250. Proceeds will go to breast cancer awareness charities. The wine was first unveiled in April and has been picked up by all the Trump resorts.

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Whitesnake Launching New Wine

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Filed under: Wine, Celebrity Design

What do pro golfers, porn stars, Oscar-winning actors and rock stars have in common? Celebrity wine. The latest entry into this packed field comes from 1980s hair metal band Whitesnake. Oh yes, they are still around and releasing the Whitesnake Zinfandel 2008 through De La Montanya wines on July 1. The Whitesnake website describes it as a "bodacious, cheeky little wine, filled to the brim with the spicy essence of sexy, slippery Snakeyness," adding in a play on one of their hits: "Is this love?... I believe it is..." It will sell for around $30.

De La Montanya is a family winery that produces approximately 4,500 cases per year using grapes spanning five appellations from the Sonoma Coast to Lake County in Northern California. This isn't their first rock star collaboration, they created the 2005 "Wanna Go Back" 2005 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, a collaboration with Eddie Money as well as a wine with Journey.

[via PopWatch]

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Annika Sorenstam Chardonnay

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This spring look for a new release from Annika Vineyards, a 2008 Chardonnay that's described as full-bodied with a balance of apricot, peach, and tangerine and a finish of vanilla, graham, and ground spice. Annika Vineyards is a collaboration between Hall of Fame golfer Annika Sorenstam and the family-owned Wente Vineyards and this new vintage joins a 2006 Syrah to be the second ultra-premium boutique wine offered by the vineyard. Sorenstam worked closely with winemaker Karl Wente to select the Chardonnay and said "This is the one I could picture myself enjoying with family, friends, and business associates."

Look for it to be released nationally this spring with a retail price of $40/750ml.

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Celebrity Wine Projects Are Popular With Wine Drinkers

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Filed under: Wine, Celebrity Shopping

Celebrity wine projects are extremely common these days and range from a celebrity simply lending their name or face to a project, to celebs who get hands on with the wine and are involved in the winemaking process. A new report from Neilsen reports that the celebrity projects are as Wine Spirits Daily terms it "the new hotness," replacing brands with animals on their labels as the wines that are most appealing to consumers. Celebrity wines are up nearly 19% in grocery store sales since last year. They are less than one percent of total wine but that adds up to $41.8 million. Consumers seems to be willing to pay more for the celeb wines, an average of $8.50 versus $5.75 per bottle of regular table wine (celeb wines are generally in th $12 to $15 range). As you might guess, the West Coast is more interested in celebrity brands; Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego all had above average sales.

Gallery: Celebrity Wine Projects

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Paul Newman Enters The Wine Business

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Filed under: Wine, Celebrity Shopping, Charity

Following in the footsteps of Martha Stewart, Paul Newman becomes the latest celeb with a wine label. Newman's Own 2006 California Chardonnay and 2006 California Cabernet Sauvignon will be released next March. In the press release, Paul Newman notes that he originally bottles his first product, his salad dressing in old wine bottles with parchment labels, so the brand is coming full circle. Since that beginning 25 years ago Newman's Own has grown into a major brand offering pasta sauce, lemonade, salsa and more. Money generated from the products has allowed the Newman's Own Foundation to donate more than 200 million dollars to thousands of charities.

Newman worked with Rebel Wine Company, which also makes True Earth organic wine which we have previously profiled. The Newman wines are made from grapes sourced from coastal vineyards and are expected to sell for $16. An article in AdAge mirrors a question I had which is whether $16 is too high a price for wine's that have a celebrity name but not a lot of celebrity input. The True Earth wines sells for around $13 and Martha Stewart's wine is expected to sell for around $15. Newman's products generally seem to be a little pricer than others and consumers have been willing to pay a little more knowing that it goes to a good cause. Wine lovers, however, tend to purchase based on a complex variety of factors (including terroir and the recommendations of wine bloggers and critics) and might be a tougher nut to crack as they expect a lot from a bottle that veers toward the $20 bottle range.

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Mamietage Wine Brings New Meaning To The Word Full-Bodied

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For certain winemakers, what is on the label rather than what is inside is the main selling feature. We've seen it recently with the wines that put Jesus and infamous dictators on the bottles and we are seeing it again in the new 2005 Mamietage wine which features images of aging bombshell Mamie Van Doren. Like the Marilyn Monroe wines we have seen before, this wine features nude pictures that are covered by peel-away stickers. The are three 1.5 liter bottles, two images of Mamie today (heavily Photoshopped, we hope, although for someone born in 1931 according to IMDB she looks fabulous) and one of Mamie at age 21. Should you choose to partake of the wine you will find a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Petite Verdot, Syrah and Malbec from the Alexander Valley bottled by the Armida winery which is located in Healdsburg, CA. A set of all three bottles sells for $300.

[via Wine Spectator]

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John Daly Wines

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My favorite golfer, John Daly, is launching a wine label. Now, I love wine and I love Daly but the two together don't make a lot of sense. After all, Daly has famously had a problem with alcohol and his aesthetic has never seemed to be that of the oenophile. Daly's wines were launched on May 25 in Memphis, Tennessee. There are three ranges thus far in the series, the Fairway Range, the Lion's Range and the Perfect Round. The Fairway Range and Lion's Range includes lighter wines such Chardonnay and Shiraz while the Perfect Round is a Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. The wines are made from South African grapes. Daly's name might induce me to buy golf balls or perhaps hamburgers but not wine.

[via The Star-Ledger]

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Rocker Plans Touring Schedule Around Winery

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The lead singer of the band Tool is serious about his burgeoning wine business. Maynard James Keenan has planned his touring schedule around his vineyard's harvesting and bottling schedule. He launched Merkin Vineyards in Sedona, Arizona last year and his first wine the Primer Paso has been a sell out. The rocker plans to release a 2004 Nagual de la Naga and a 2004 Nagual del Sensei and a new Primer Paso under his Caduceus Cellars label this year. Thus far the wines are only available at the tasting room in Page Springs, Arizona.

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Madonna-themed Wine

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If you are more interested in what is on the bottle than what is in the bottle then Celebrity Cellars is for you. They specialize in collectible “star tribute” bottles that feature unique artwork. They have done a whole series of Rolling Stones related artwork and recently announced their new Madonna wines that show pictures from her latest album. The bottles are sold in four varieties from an “UnWine” (non-alcoholic) for $25 to a Cabernet Sauvignon for $40. The Madonnalicious bottles will be shipped in January.

[via Perez Hilton]

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