A bottle of Annika.
Finer Things
December 2008
Swedish golfer Annika Sorenstam, who retired last year at age 37 after
earning more than $22 million in prize money, has set down one type of
club to pursue another—her own wine club. Sorenstam teamed up with
California’s Wente family winery to create a vintage, modestly named
Annika and formed from Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon varietals (some of
which were grown alongside the Greg Norman championship golf course
that, coincidentally, winds through the vineyard). It will be available
for $75 a bottle this May; an Annika Chardonnay will likely debut the
following year. Sorenstam thinks her career change is more logical than
it might appear. “People who play golf seem to enjoy this part of
life—food and wine,” she says. “The demographic is the same.”
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