Celebrity wine geeks

[Steve_Doi]

Gregg Popovich

[ERPark]

@andy velebil

How could you all forget to mention Johnny Depp? LOL

How do you fail to see him mentioned by the OP as the first celeb after LBJ???

[Michael_Martin]

Charles Woodson
Mario Andretti

[ERPark]

@Jerry Hey

@ERPark

“Lenny Dykstra, back when he signed his 3 year/$8M deal with the Philadelphia Phillies, flew to Paris to celebrate. Goes to a nice resto, and instructs them to bring the best bottle of wine they have. A bottle of DRC RC is produced, and the neophyte wine drinker Dykstra finds it delicious. Ends up ordering 2 more bottles, and the tab clocks in at a bit over $8K USD. And thus his love of the finer things in life continued until his downfall”.

I bought Lenny’s remaining bottles in his collection and one was a bottle of 1937 Yquem that he bought a Tour d’Argent after a blowout dinner. It was the second bottle of 1937 that he bought to take home after having the first bottle. And it was spectacular a couple years ago.

Of the 100 or so bottles in his cellar, there were two bottles of 1961 Gaja Babaresco, a 1985 Cristal and a few others, but many $10 bottles of bad wine.

He needed something to go along with the chewing tobacco…

[andy_velebil]

@ERPark

@andy velebil

How could you all forget to mention Johnny Depp? LOL

How do you fail to see him mentioned by the OP as the first celeb after LBJ???

Who reads past the title of the thread?

[ERPark]

@andy velebil

Who reads past the title of the thread?

I’ll refrain from mashing that softball out of the stadium…

[NoahR]

@R. Frankel

Les Claypool, of Primus. Also started his own label.

Primus Sucks!

[John_Morris]

@Ian Sutton

Andrew Lloyd Webber - who Michael Broadbent hadn’t heard of when he turned up at an auction Broadbent was running. After a number of high priced lots were taken by ALW, Broadbent stopped accepting bids from him because he thought the guy was a prankster.

How telling!

[Mark_Stevens]

Ernie Els
Jim Furyk
Drew Bledsoe

[Alan_Eden]

Alex Ferguson mentioned earlier by Ian is a huge wine geek, recently sold a few bottles from his cellar that raised 5 M GBP

[Ken_V]

@ERPark

@andy velebil

How could you all forget to mention Johnny Depp? LOL

How do you fail to see him mentioned by the OP as the first celeb after LBJ???

He’s a cop. He shoots first, then reads.

[andy_velebil]

@Ken V

@ERPark

@andy velebil

How could you all forget to mention Johnny Depp? LOL

How do you fail to see him mentioned by the OP as the first celeb after LBJ???

He’s a cop. He shoots first, then reads.

You’re assuming I can read

[Craig_G]

@Kelly Walker

Sammy Haggar…big time

Don’t serve him any '55s.

[Andrew_Christiansen]

@GregT

Forgot Pippa Middleton. She not only drinks wine, she passed one of those WSET or sommelier courses.

Although I’ve spent more time looking at her lower/rear region, I’ve seen her face enough to say that the attached photo is Kate? Maybe Ian can verify?

[GregT]

Edited: let’s have a little class guys

-mod

[Paul_H_Galli]

Joe Morgan.

TTT

[John_Morris]

Do CEOs count? If so, Aubrey McClendon was big-time collector of wine as well as oil and gas property. He had 100,00 bottles at one point and owned a stake in an Oklahoma City winebar.

[Subu_Ramachandran]

Leo Messi - Has a wine brand called Leo
Andres Iniesta - His family owns a winery
Alex Ferguson - very well documented collector
Andrea Pirlo - Bought a winery in Lombardy
Buffon - Launched his own wine brand [Having played for Juve, I’m surprised he didn’t go to Langhe]
Ian Botham and Bob Willis - Think they make wine in Australia

[N1CKW0LF]

Dan Marino - owns a winery (Passing Time)

[Jim_Clary]

Gina Gershon
Ryan Seacrest