Australian Treasury Wine Estates, which counts Penfolds among its brands, has purchased Daou Vineyards in California's Paso Robles for approximately $1bn.
Natural wines were, for a long time, associated with individual, iconoclast producers who saw the corporate wine giants as the enemy. Now one of those giants has moved onto their turf.
Treasury Wine Estates Ltd (TWE) confirms the majority acquisition of Château Lanessan in the Haut-Médoc. The move doubles the Penfolds brand's production capacity in France.
Austria was the first country in the world to cultivate a farm according to organic principles. In the century since, the commitment to nature has only become stronger.
