Drinking Wine With Kurt Russell Is As Fun As You Might Think

Prompted by the death of his brother, writer Dan Dunn embarked on a 3 month, 15,000 mile road trip to learn about (and drink) all the wine the USA had to offer. American Wino: A Tale of Reds, Whites and One Man’s Blues is part wine guide, part travel memoir, in which Dunn sniffs and sips fine wines with vintners, aficionados and celebrity winemakers including Kurt Russell and Maynard James Keenan of Tool. 

Here, Dunn describes the fateful day he drank wine with ‘The Hateful Eight’actor in an excerpt from the book, out April 5th. 

Santa Barbara County seemed as good a place as any to begin my nationwide oenophilic odyssey. I know a guy who makes wine thereabouts. And that guy is named Kurt Russell. I figured if anyone could bridge the gap between me and wine, it would be the star of Death Proof.

In an industrial park known as the Lompoc Wine Ghetto, the barrel room for Ampelos Cellars sits inside a large steel hangar with harsh fluorescent lighting, a cold concrete floor, and a single bathroom that’s missing a door. Picture one of those impossibly charming, fairy-tale-looking medieval châteaux that Bordeaux is so famous for. Now picture the exact opposite of that.


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