From the 1980s onwards, it became fashionable for celebrities, especially from the show business, to own their own winery. It is in the nature of things that the vast majority have nothing to do with winemaking and leave this to professionals. One of the very first was the US director Francis Ford Coppola (*1939) in 1975, who used his money from the first two Godfather films. One of the most enterprising is the French actor Gerard Depardieu (*1948), who is active worldwide with his wineries in three continents. The only one who actually learned the trade and took over the business from his father is the Italian Albano Carrisi, who became famous as a show star with his first wife Romina Power:
Alberto Alessi - Italian star designer
Cascina Eugenie (Piedmont-Italy)
Antonio Banderas - Spanish actor (Zorro)
Bodega Banderas (Ribera delDuero-Spain)
Drew Barrymore - US actress (the little girl in E.T.)
Barrymore (Veneto-Italy)
Al Bano (Albano Carrisi) - Italian winemaker and singer
Azienda Vinicola Tenute Al Bano Carrisi (Apulia-Italy)
Franz Beckenbauer - German football player
Lammershoek(Swartland, South Africa)
David & Victoria Beckham - English footballer & pop singer
For his 34th birthday David gave his wife Victoria (*1974, née Adams)
a vineyard in Napa Valley (California) for the rumoured purchase price of 12 million US dollars.
Gianni Bulgari - Italian-Greek jewellery designer
Podernuovo (Tuscany-Italy)
Adriano Celentano - Italian singer and actor
Galibate (Lake Como, Lombardy-Italy)
Francis Ford Coppola - US director (Godfather I, II, III, Apocalypse Now)
Inglenook Winery(Napa Valley), Château Sovereign (SonomaCounty-California)
See in detail under Francis Ford Coppola Winery
Gérard Depardieu - French actor
Château de Tigné(Loire, other Médoc, Saint-Émilion, Crimea, North Africa, South America)
Johnny Depp - US actor
The movie star planned to run his own winery for quite some time. Finally, in 2012, he announced: 'I've been looking into the idea of growing wine in the south of France. However, it's a difficult process, you have to deal with the government step by step and I found that far too annoying. By his own admission, his favourite wine is the red wine Château Calon-Ségur(Saint-Estèphe-Médoc-France).
Bob Dylan - US rock singer and songwriter
special wine brand, produced by Antonio Terni/Fattoria Le Terrazze
Planet Waves" brand (Rosso Conero, Marche-Italy)
Johnny Halliday - French pop singer
Terre d'Aumers (Languedoc-France)
Andrés Iniesta - Spanish national football player
Fuentealbilla (Albacete, LaMancha-Spain)
Günter Jauch - German TV presenter
Othegraven(Moselle-Germany)
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt - US actors (formerly married couple; divorced since 2017)
Miraval (Côtes deProvence-France)
Madonna (Louise Veronica Ciccone) - US pop singer, actress
led by her father Tony Ciccone (Michigan-USA)
Thomas Muster - Austrian tennis player (short-term No. 1)
managed by Manfred Tement - brand Toms (SouthStyria-Austria)
Brand was discontinued in 2010 (Muster & wine just didn't go together)
Gianna Nannini - Italian pop singer
Certosa di Belriguardo (Chianti, Tuscany-Italy)
Andrea Pirlo - Italian national football player
Pratum Coller (Lombardy-Italy)
Cliff Richard - English pop singer
Adega do Cantor (Algarve-Portugal)
Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) - Australian pop musician
Tenuta del Palagio/I Serrestori (Chianti, Tuscany-Italy)
Oliviero Toscani - Italian star photographer (Benetton)
Otwine - led by the children Lola and Rocco (Tuscany-Italy)
Donald Trump - 45th US President
Kluge Estate (Virginia-USA)
See also under Favourite W ines (famous wine connoisseurs with their favourite spirits) and under Cinema and TV Films (a list of famous films related to wine and viticulture).
Francis Ford Coppola: By Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Al Bano Carrisi: By Sailko - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Cliff Richard: By Eva Rinaldi - Cliff Richard, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
David Beckham: By Brian MInkoff - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Madonna: By © Pascal Mannaerts, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
