As the football season comes to an end in February, the basketball season heats up. This is the first episode in a two-part series we’re calling Wine and Basketball, in which we chat with NBA stars who decided to get into the wine game.
This week we sat down with 10-time NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony and his long-time business partner and entrepreneur, Asani Swann. Together, they co-founded The Seventh Estate VII(N), a new global wine label.
They partnered with third-generation Rhône winemaker Stéphane Usseglio to produce their first vintage Oath of Fidelity, Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2017.
Anthony and Swann talk about their relationship with wine, breaking racial barriers, what inspired the name of the inaugural vintage, Oath of Fidelity, and where they envision their wine label will be in the future.
