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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Will Start Selling ‘Miraval’ Wine

Everyone wants to know whether they'll use natural or synthetic corks.
Everyone wants to know whether they’ll use natural or synthetic corks. Photo: EPA/Corbis

Terroir! Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes the news that the two swooniest movie stars to ever hold hands are going into the wine business: Bloomberg reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are putting their names on a line of rosé made from grapes grown on Chateau Miraval, their thousand-acre estate in Provence. The wine used to be called “Pink Floyd” but will now be known as Miraval, and while the label doesn’t look like a Chanel ad, it does carry the names “Jolie-Pitt and Perrin”; the latter is that of a fifth-generation winemaker whose family owns the famous Chateau Beaucastel in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, and he tells Bloomberg he’ll be overseeing the ferments and sharing the profits. Miraval rosé will be the first release, with a white coming in the summer and a red wine next year. The best news yet is that Pitt and Jolie are reportedly “in full agreement on style” on the taste of the fermented grapes. “If you knew Brad and Angelina, you would see they are in search of perfection in everything,” says Perrin. “They’re thinking long term.” [Bloomberg]

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Will Start Selling ‘Miraval’ Wine