By Judith Orr

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/13/10 — As everyone settles back to normal after Sunday’s Academy Awards, I am coming at you with a wine item for Johndrow Vineyards, the official wine of HFM Media’s Haven 360 at the Hotel Andaz West Hollywood. www.johndrowvineyards.com

Visitors to Haven 360, HFM Media and A-List Communications’ Awards Week celebrity experience venue at the Andaz West Hollywood, got more than the usual gifts and entertainment.  They also sampled fine wine—and took some home—courtesy of Johndrow Vineyards owner David Johndrow , who was on hand personally pursue his mission to help celebrity wine lovers “find your happy place.”  And that place was the wine lounge at Haven 360.

Celebrities attending both the daytime events—including spa treatments, a charity photo shoot for The Creative Coalition, and gifts from sonic toothbrushes and sunglasses to suitcases, as well as the nightly receptions on the hotel rooftop—enthusiastically tried Johndrow’s Clarity White, Cabernet and Reserve.  Among those who swished and swallowed JV Wines during the day included Phillip Bloch; Ryan Cabrera and Audrina Patridge; Alan Cumming; Erin Cummings; Spirit Award Winner and Oscar winner, PRECIOUS screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher; Ian Gomez; Oscar nominee for A SERIOUS MAN Sari Lennick; Kathy Joosten; Richard Kind; Joe Mantegna; DWTS’ Gilles Marini; hip-hop artist Mario; Dash Mishok; Olympic Silver Medalist Jared “Speedy” Peterson; Evan Ross; Russell Simmons; Steven Webber; Brian White; and Gray’s Anatomy’s Jesse Williams.

Nighttime sampling guests include Spirit and Image Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated director Lee Daniels; SEX AND THE CITY’s Evan Handler; Dennis Haysbert; Hayden Panatierre (who preferred JV Clarity); and Serena Williams, among others. Haven and JV Vineyards hosted the official pre-party for the Oscar-winning documentary THE COVE, attended by director Louie Psihoyos, writer Mark Monroe and producers Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher Stevens, and Brook Aitken. Comedian Eddie Griffin, speaking at party for Lee Daniels and black Hollywood Thursday night, thanked JV Wines when he shushed the crowd saying, “the people that paid for the booze at this party want you to hear what they are saying up on stage here.”  Johndrow quipped, “I’ll take that as a compliment.”