{"id":233071,"date":"2025-07-02T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233071\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:07:09","slug":"what-meghan-markles-napa-valley-rose-has-in-common-with-barry-manilow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233071\/","title":{"rendered":"What Meghan Markle’s Napa Valley ros\u00e9 has in common with Barry Manilow"},"content":{"rendered":"

As with Meghan Markle\u2019s apricot and raspberry spreads, bottles of her special new As Ever ros\u00e9 sold out in under an hour Wednesday upon their release, even after customers were forced to buy three bottles, retailing for $30 each, to complete the purchase, as the Daily Mail reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

In any case, the Duchess of Sussex is officially in the wine business, joining a long line of celebrities who seek to make big bucks by slapping their names to labels of reds, whites or sparkling wines of varying quality and price.<\/p>\n

The former TV actor and wife of Prince Harry also is the latest star to sell ros\u00e9, a wine that was long looked down upon by wine snobs but that has enjoyed an \u201cupmarket makeover\u201d in recent years, as the Daily Mail also reported<\/a>. Celebrity associations have apparently helped raise the profile of ros\u00e9, including those by Brad Pitt making his well-regarded version in the South of Francie under the Chateau Miraval label.<\/p>\n

\"BarryBarry Manilow, center, performs during the Pre-Grammy Gala on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meghan\u2019s wine is made in Napa Valley and by a winery that\u2019s known for creating bespoke wines for celebrities,<\/a> such as a Cabernet Sauvignon and Cuv\u00e9e Blanc for singer Barry Manilow, a sparkling wine for the estate of movie legend John Wayne and an award-winning Cabernet Sauvignon, called \u201cThe Bison,\u201d for the hit Western TV series, \u201cYellowstone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The winery is Fairwinds Estate, located on the Silverado Trail outside Calistoga. Fairwinds also creates brands for organizations and universities, including schools in the south like The Citadel, Appalachian State University and the University of Houston. Regarding the Obbligato Napa Valley wine<\/a> that Fairwinds makes for Manilow, the singer said he donates proceeds to his Manilow Music Project, which provides instruments, equipment and scholarships in order to \u201cempower underfunded school music programs to provide quality music education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources told the Daily Mail that Meghan decided to partner with Fairwinds because it suffered extensive damage in the 2020 Glass Fire. \u201cShe wanted to lean in and help a California business rebuild,\u201d the source said. Fortunately, Fairwinds also said<\/a> on its website that its wine inventory and production were protected in its underground wine caves.<\/p>\n

Megan has said that her As Ever ros\u00e9 is \u201cinfused with joy and whimsy.\u201d The label offers some other other limited details, including that it\u2019s a Napa Valley wine. By law, that means that at least 75% of the grapes come from the region. The label also identifies a vintage \u2014 2023 \u2014 which means that the grapes were harvested that year. In reports, locals have said 2023 was a very good year, perhaps \u00a0\u201cone of the finest in decades.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

No doubt, Meghan\u2019s critics and even some serious oenophiles will soon have their say about her foray into the wine industry, once the bottles land in the hands of customers.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Meghan can hope that there won\u2019t be embarrassing delivery problems, as there have been with recent shipments of her $14 apricot spread, as the New York Post reported<\/a>. This week, she was forced to issue refunds to customers after a website stock error left customers notified that from the company that it was unable to fill their orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust received an email from As Ever, they are unable to fulfill my apricot order but will give me a full refund and a free replacement when it becomes available again,\u201d one customer wrote on X, the New York Post reported.<\/p>\n

Meghan experienced a similar \u201cblunder\u201d several weeks ago with orders of her $28 jars of honey, the New York Post reported. Puck also reported that that this \u201chaphazard\u201d rollout of As Ever products<\/a> was simply \u201cthe Sussex way.\u201d And while Meghan and her fans have claimed that her products have been so popular that they\u2019ve quickly sold out, \u00a0Puck writer Rachel Strugatz said that creating a product \u201cscarcity\u201d was always part of the plan; Meghan wanted everything to sell out within a day \u201cto create the illusion of demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

But if the duchess can better organize her wine inventory, she stands to make a lot of money, as do other celebrities who have joined the lucrative celebrity alcohol branding trend, as the Daily Mail said. Pitt\u2019s Miraval ros\u00e9 brand, which he formerly co-owned with ex-wife Angelina Jolie, is valued at around $500 million, according to Page Six<\/a>. Meanwhile, George Clooney sold his Casamigos tequila company for $1 billion in 2017.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

While Meghan probably wasn\u2019t in the Napa Valley in 2023 helping with the harvest, she did spent a fair amount of time doing a lot of tasting of different blends created by Fairwinds before deciding on a final version, a source told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time she had friends over she would test the different blends out on them and then give notes back to the expert winemaker that it needed more of this, or less of that,\u201d the source said. \u201cThis is a custom-made wine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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