Kylie Minogue talks new wine, new music, and new business ventures.
one Tweet.) Since launching internationally in 2020, the brand has become a runaway hit. Over five million bottles of the wine have been sold, her line of rosés have reportedly become some of the best-selling in the United Kingdom, and she picked up a Golden Vine Award for Wine Entrepreneurialism in 2021. “My main concern was quality,” Minogue said of her product.
“I thought they might go, ‘Oh, here comes another celebrity wine,’” she said. “Within the wine community, there may have been some skepticism at first. Understandably, but we’ve followed through. Now I feel like it’s been a big welcome to the wine industry.” “I really wanted to be genuine about the product and about my position in the market,” she continued. “I know I’m a baby in this. I know we’re just beginning and I know very, very little. It’s also turned out to be have been an amazing voyage of discovery. You know, it’s not the worst day’s work, learning about wine. For a curious person, it’s very satisfying.”Minogue carries herself with a warm confidence without a trace of diva-like ego, and certainly remains curious.
ten years ago, she actually enjoyed the reprieve from being a pop star, and left her musical team behind to focus on the movie. “‘I have to do this on my own,’” she recalled telling them. “‘I have to just be a working actor, turn up, know my stuff, do what I have to do.’ I really wanted to go back to the way I felt when I started, and not be this version of myself that has come over time.”
Who can say where Kylie’s curiosities will take her next? The videos of her stripped-back performance at Café Carlyle had already made their way around the Internet by the time we spoke. I told her a friend had commented that she wanted one of the piano versions of the songs for her wedding, and that the arrangements could have some life beyond just another Monday night performance in New York City. “There could be a little return trip with more than five songs,” she replied.