Five Famous Winemakers Behind the World’s Famous Wines

Businessmen and celebrities are completely busy people. They put themselves out there for the world to see their great projects and talents, which is have gotten them pretty far. But let’s be clear, all of this famous people are normal people as well. I mean, that they are just like us! Well, maybe not in everything, but they have favorite pastimes like all of us. Someone plays on guitar like me, someone use to run every morning, but some people really like to make a wine. These five celebrities and businessmen happen to be pretty big fans of wine and they’ve opened their own wineries.

Sam Neill is one of the most famous film personalities to hail from the South Pacific, New Zealand-bred actor not famous only about his incredible movies. Long time ago he created a wine company which is called Two Paddocks and very popular on a wine market. Anyone who meets Sam Neill knows that he is very simple man. But he is a humble man in a business not known for humility. Neill is not being an egoist; he diverts attention from himself and his personality, routinely changing the subject when he’s talking about showbiz or his screen career. But he always happy to talk about his vineyards, which were a government agricultural research station before, he bought this fields. He’s added a park of oaks from which wine barrels will be coopered in the future. He has a flower garden from which he distills the essential oil on-site. Everyone can buy a phial of his flower oil at the farm, along with few bottles of pinot noir.

Singer-songwriter John Legend won his first Grammy Award in 2004 and since that time become a real star. Outside of music he is involved in numerous social and philanthropic causes. Legend is a supporter of the Harlem Village Academies and serves as a vice chairman on the HVA board. He's very versatile person, you will never guess what he could do else. After all, Legend owns the Napa Valley-based LVE (Legend Vineyard Exclusive). With over 300 acres of vineyards, his farm offers multiple tours and experiences, like a “Blending Room,” where each guest can craft his own wine.

John Elway is the greatest modern American football player, who was in the position of quarterback for the Denver Broncos during 16 years, leading his team to two consecutive Super Bowl wins. Looking ahead after his previous sport career, Elway opened an automobile salon in the Denver area in the 1990s. This business was successful and grew to include 7 auto franchises. He also became a member of charity club, donating his money to victims of child abuse and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. And the last thing which he made very successfully, it is his own vineyards. Elway teamed up with fourth-generation Napa Valley winemaker Rob Mondavi, and created his own label of wine.

The Rockefeller name is one so well-known in different spheres on our planet that it is perhaps unlike any other heritage the world’s largest economy has ever known. From the banking, medicine, oil industry, philanthropy and education, this family had influence on every spheres of their activity. Michael Charles Rockefeller is a young representative of this family, an Israeli-American Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Business Executive. He set up a successful construction business, and with his good friend and partner Daniel Couts created a company "Rockefeller & Couts". But in one day he decided, that it’s time for a refreshing new venture. Now young Rockefeller is an owner of beautiful vineyards in Tuscany. According to his opinion, all busy people deserve that one perfect glass of wine.

Famous designer Zac Posen emerged as American fashion's newest star in 2002 when his incredible feminine dresses made their New York City runway debut. He was called as the design world's latest prodigy, and he had originally made the dresses for model Naomi Campbell. In 2016 Posen teamed up with Ecco Domani Wines, and created his own wine collection. The skyscraper bottle shape is inspired by the Art Deco Chrysler Building in New York, where designer grew up. Produced at organic winey Domaine Sainte-Marie in Côtes de Provence from old vine Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah and Carignan, this wine is of the leading Provence rosé brands in America.