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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visit French vineyard
August 6, 2007
By Oliver Styles
Film star couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie visited a southern French vineyard last week, but will not buy it despite reports to the contrary.
The Hollywood stars visited Chateau Val Joanis, in the Luberon region north of Aix-en-Provence, last Wednesday, prompting reports on several websites that the couple were planning to buy the property
However a spokesperson for the 186ha estate said that they had no intention of buying.
'They visited the chateau and found it very pretty,' said the spokeswoman. 'But there's no truth in the rumour that they wanted to buy it.'
Pitt, 44, has already made headlines in the wine world after visiting three Barolo wine estates in the Piedmont region of northern Italy last year. No sales were confirmed following the visit.
Chateau Val Joanis' reserve red wine, Les Griottes 2001, received four stars in Decanter's April 2004 issue.
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 I don't think they were planning to buy,they were looking to adopt it.
Michael H Prendergast
Had they bought the vineyard, this might have been construed as a wine story. But they did not buy the vineyard. They were simply celebrities visiting a vineyard. Thus, in my admittedly narrow view this does not constitute a wine story, perhaps not even a news story. Rather than Decanter, this piece might well have appeared in a magazine that rhymes with "steeple." Why not leave it to that magazine to report on this kind of stuff? Personally, I like the material you generally cover. Was there a dearth of the usual subject matter on the weekend?
S. Drotos, Beamsville, Ontario, Canada
I wonder if you can surgically enhance a vineyard?
David Gibbons, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
How is this news? ...save it for the tabloids.
Mario Vinciguerra
Celebrities invade every area of our lives, or so it seems. Please keep them out of the wine world, except as wine buying customers, like other normal people!
Suzan Boxell
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