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STARS
– & WINE –
Courteney Cox:
“Just like in other areas,
women bring a fresh
perspective to wine”
She was in her early twenties when she appeared on camera for the first time in 1984,
swaying her hips in front of Bruce Springsteen in the memorable video clip of
‘Dancing in the Dark’ by Brian de Palma. It would get her instantly noticed.
Ten years later, Martha Kaufmann, co-writer and producer of the series ‘Friends’,
gave her the role of Monica Geller. It was a life-changer and she went on to become a global
star. While waiting for her big comeback in 2022 in a new opus of ‘Scream’,
the beautiful Alabama native speaks to us about wine emphatically and with conviction...
Interview by Frank Rousseau, our correspondent in the United States
Photographs: all rights reserved
With her sun-kissed beauty and magnetic eyes, this Alabama native
has always been close to nature and the simple things in life
It has often been said and/or written that wine is
men’s business. Is this still true in your opinion?
I think there are still many sommeliers who tend to
have a man taste a freshly opened bottle of wine rather
than a woman! The same applies when you are invited
to the homes of some “conservative” people, who still
think that a woman’s “job” is to watch over the roast in
the oven while the man is in charge of getting the wine
from the cellar! But mentalities are of course changing.
I once chatted with a woman who had taken over her
father’s business because he no longer had the strength
to look after his vines. It wasn’t the man’s sons who
took over but his daughter. To perpetuate his legacy,
she had gone as far as to study oenology at university.
Her father had only given hands-on, practical training
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