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 All the Pinot, Pinot Grigio girls
Pour your heart out
Watch your blues turn gold
All the Pinot, Pinot Grigio girls
Keep it real cold
'Cause it's a fired-up world
Oh, oh, make it all make sense
Oh, oh, does it all make sense?
Oh, oh, make it all make sense
It makes a lot of sense since she is a celebrity with a massive fan following which would love to taste her wines. She is an American born to Italian father and a half Italian mother and Pinot Grigio is the most popular grape in North eastern Italy and has been the fastest growing wine varietal in terms of sales during the last few years. Her parents own an Italian restaurant in New York City called Joanne Trattoria.
"Grigio Girls" is a song inspired by Gaga's friend, Sonja, who has cancer. It's about how Gaga and her girlfriends would get together, pop open a bottle and cry for her. Their own brand of wine seems like a perfect tribute, says TMZ who broke the news first.
In a 2016 interview with a radio station Gaga revealed that the song “Grigio Girls” was inspired by a friend battling stage-four cancer.“It’s about how me and all of our girlfriends would get together and cry without her when she’s not around, because we love her so much.”And, as suggested by the song’s chorus, these crying sessions would perhaps involve lots of wine.
Gaga (Name at birth- Stefani Germanotta) with a typical Italian name, has yet to publicly announce her entry into the world of wine-making, but once she does, she’ll become the latest in a long line of celebrity oenophiles.
Hollywood elite like “Godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola, “Santa Clarita Diet” actress Drew Barrymore, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (just to name a few) have all previously released their own wines under various labels. In 2013, Wine Spectator even rated the now separated Brangelina's rosé, Miraval as the best in the world.
According to The Sun, Gaga began looking to enter the wine industry after going on a 2012 retreat to Sonoma Valley with then-boyfriend Taylor Kinney, and she’s been keen on growing her own grapes ever since.
“She also sees a vineyard as a business investment and something she can work on with Taylor when her pop career comes to an end,” an unnamed source said at the time.
Interestingly she admits to being a binge drinker with red wine. According to the report in Sun, the singer admitted in 2011 that she was a huge fan of getting drunk on red wine. She said her favourite way to catch up with friends was to have wine and food nights. “We cook together, drink six or seven bottles of red wine and just talk crap.”
One can be fairly sure that the Pinot Grigio would not be crappy wines. And hopefully, she would inspire some of her fans in India to switch to wine from other hard drinks. Better still, it may send a message to a musician to turn his or her talents in making good wine. Currently Vijay Amritraj is the only celebrity who gets his label made with Grover and is very conscientious of his brand image.
Subhash Arora |