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Revolver magazine “I’m a Bordeaux girl,” says Amos. “I love the seduction of good wine. I love it when I have
to surrender to it.” “It is a relationship,
Bordeaux.” The man responsible for Amos’ affair
with fine wines is none other than Al “Year of the Cat” Stewart, who she met as
an aspiring rocker girl living in Los Angeles. “He looked at me, and said, ‘You’ve never had good wine!’
I said, ‘Oh, my god! Is it that obvious?’” Stewart had the singer-pianist and her boyfriend over for dinner one
evening, and Amos saw the light. “He brought a white Burgundy and a red Bordeaux up from his
cellar, and they completely changed my life. I never thought of grapes in the
same way again.” Being a slave to the vine can be
costly. “I’d
rather drink Evian than mediocre wine,” says Amos, who generally spends $40-$45 a bottle, and maintains
cellars (the underground kind) at her homes in Cornwall and Ireland. “Some people buy cars and jewelry,” she says. “I don’t do that. I buy wine - and I love sharing it.” Amos is famous for sharing her
beloved Bordeaux on the tour bus, but life on the road with Tori isn’t exactly
a roving bacchanalia. “There
are nights when we’ll go a few bottles deep,” she says. “But
you know you’re going to pay for it the next day, and I don’t enjoy the back
end. It’s about discipline.” |