New York - It seemed like the perfect gimmick: a celebrity porn star would launch her own wine, with her alluring picture on the label.
Savanna Samson did just that, but when it received a score of 90 to 91 out of 100 by wine guru Robert Parker, the project became serious.
It turns out Samson, the star of The New Devil In Miss Jones, has produced an exceptional wine, becoming the toast of two industries: wine-making and pornography.
"I never wanted to just do gimmick. That would just happen with me being a porn star, me having a photographer shoot the label, how risque could I get on the label - all those things," Samson, the stage name for 31-year-old Natalie Oliveros, said in an interview.
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The seriousness of the idea was lining up a respected wine maker. So she convinced Italy's Robert Cipresso - also a vintner to the Vatican - to join the project.
Samson went to Tuscany and tasted dozens of Cipresso's Italian-grown varieties, then she selected a mix of 70 percent Cesanese, 20 percent Sangiovese and 10 percent Montepulciano and ordered over 400 cases. - Reuters
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