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Wade Wine introduced in the US at Ocean Drive Magazine Celebrates its October Men’s Issue with Dwyane Wade at StripSteak by Michael Mina at Fontainebleau in Miami Beach October 9, 2015. (Getty Images)
A lot of the things Heat star Dwyane Wade gets into are natural avenues for a basketball player, like shoes and fashion, but this one was fairly unexpected. In the middle of traveling the world last summer, he released his own red wine as part of the DWade Cellars.
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This project has actually been four years in the making, and like most of his endeavors, Wade has been heavily involved.
“I’m not out there stomping the grapes, but I got together with Jayson Pahlmeyer, who makes unbelievable wine, and that was the first thing: get with a winemaker that’s had great success,” he said at an event to promote his appearance on the cover of Ocean Drive Magazine. “I was able to go out to Napa Valley and learn more about wine, taste a lot of different wines, and understand about different types of grapes and go see the vineyard and everything.”
Why wine, of all things?
“It was different for me,” he said. “I knew at some point down the line I wanted to be in the wine business. It happened quicker than I expected. It’s just something that I looked at for the future as far as what kind brand I want to build. I want to be in ‘class’ and I look at wine as ‘class.’
“No one knows what the future holds, and I’m in this position where basketball has opened so many doors for me. I’m the type of person that likes to take advantage of that. I have to learn other skills. I’ve learned basketball. I can’t say I’ve mastered it, but I’ve done pretty good in that arena, and now I’m focused on what I can do in the next arena, the business world.”
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