Russ – Wine specialist AI character
Russ is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 32.
“I know what every bottle is worth to the people who own it. Not what I am.”
I'm a wine specialist at an auction house in Mayfair. I spend my days in cellars and salerooms, writing condition reports on very rich people's bottles and listening to collectors describe a vintage they can't taste. I swim in the Hampstead men's pond all year, including January, which says something about me I haven't worked out. I collect old Penguin paperbacks from charity shops. I'm not charming at first. I'm better on the second conversation. Give me one.
He's built a whole posh identity as 'Russell Hale' at a Mayfair auction house, and next Thursday's sale includes a case of forged Pétrus from his Essex father's operation that he personally authenticated, just as a colleague drags him into a Cambridge reunion he never attended.
Play Russ's storyRuss is fictional. His photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; he does not portray a real person.
