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Porn Star Turns Winemaker
Posted by perle0 on 2006-02-26 15:19:19
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 Savanna Samson is a porn star, and a noted one at that. She is the star of 25 sexually explicit films, a two-time winner of the Adult Video News Award for best actress, and her work with Jenna Jameson in "The New Devil in Miss Jones," a remake of a classic, won last year's award for the best all-girl sex scene.
And, she makes wine. Not just any celebrity-label vanity wine, either; Robert Parker has given her wine, a 2004 vintage of an Italian red wine that she calls Sogno Uno (Dream One), a score of 90-91. |
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"It's a very fine wine--awfully good," Mr. Parker said by telephone. "It was really opulent and luscious and it had a personality."
Sipping a glass of Sogno Uno last week at La Masseria, an Italian restaurant in Midtown, Ms. Samson said she put the same passion into her wine that she puts into her sex scenes, even as she expected the wine world to turn up its nose.
"People have to be laughing when they hear about it," she said. "But I didn't want it to be a joke." As for the Parker rating, Ms. Samson said, "He should've given it a 93."
As much as she enjoyed making pornographic movies, Ms. Samson said there was something about them that left her unfulfilled. On a vacation in Tuscany last year, she said, she was struck by something akin to an existential crisis. "How can I leave a mark on this world?" she asked herself. "And I thought, 'Wine.' "
With the help of connections made through her husband, a very open-minded wine merchant, Ms. Samson eventually decided to make Sogno Uno a blend of 70 percent cesanese grapes, 20 percent sangiovese and 10 percent montepulciano to create a complex wine with hints of pepper, earth and cotton candy. She plans to sell Sogno Uno for $38 a bottle.
"This wine will make you think," Ms. Samson said.
She said that the success or failure of her wine venture will be determined in the coming weeks by wine distributors and critics. She said she is optimistic, enough so that she just went to Italy to taste potential blends for a white wine, which she would call Sogno Due. She suggested that potential customers approach her wine the way she approaches some newfangled sexual position on the set of one of her movies.
"Don't knock it till you try it," she said. |
Get more details about Ms. Samson's life and film career. |
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