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The label says Bordeaux. The annual report says Australia

Château Lanessan is an estate in the Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux. Castello di Gabbiano is a castle in Chianti Classico. DAOU Mountain sits in the hills west of Paso Robles, California.

Three countries, three very different labels. One owner: Treasury Wine Estates, a company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange — the same company that owns Penfolds. It holds 78.6% of Lanessan and 100% of the other two, and it says so in its own annual report.

Wine labels tell you a place. They rarely tell you who owns the place. So we built a lookup that does: Who owns this wine? lists 87 wine brands next to the listed company that owns them, the stake, and the filing that says so.

Labels that cross a border

Most listed wine companies own vineyards at home. These are the ones whose sites sit in a different country from the owner, each read from the owner's own filing or official page (register checked 8 October 2026):

Site Where it is Owner Listed in
Château Lanessan Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux, France Treasury Wine Estates (78.6%) Australia
Castello di Gabbiano Chianti Classico, Tuscany, Italy Treasury Wine Estates (100%) Australia
DAOU Mountain Paso Robles, California, USA Treasury Wine Estates (100%) Australia
Bonterra Organic Estates Mendocino County, California, USA Viña Concha y Toro Chile
Bodega Trivento Mendoza, Argentina Viña Concha y Toro (100%) Chile
Finca La Celia Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina Viña San Pedro Tarapacá Chile
Masi Tupungato Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina Masi Agricola (100%) Italy
Kilikanoon Clare Valley, South Australia Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine (99%) China (Shenzhen)
Barossa Valley Estate Barossa, South Australia Delegat Group (100%) New Zealand
L'Avenir Wine Estate Stellenbosch, South Africa AdVini (100%) France
Quinta do Grifo · Quinta de Monsul (Rozès) Douro, Portugal Maison Pommery & Associés France
Maison Veuve Amiot Saumur, Loire, France Schloss Wachenheim Germany
ZAREA · Domeniile Dealu Mare Romania Ambra (51.15% of ZAREA) Poland

A few things jump out. The flow is not one-way from the Old World to the New: an Australian company owns a Bordeaux château and a Chianti castle, a Chinese company owns a Clare Valley winery, and two Chilean companies own wineries across the Andes in Mendoza — one of them also owns a Californian organic brand.

Why "who owns it" is a data problem

None of this is secret. It is just scattered: Note 28 of one annual report, a registration document in French, a Shenzhen exchange filing in Chinese. Every row in the register carries the URL of the document it came from and the locator inside it, so you can check any line yourself.

Where a filing names a site as the company's own but gives no percentage, the stake column says "—" rather than guessing.

Use the data

Everything is free under CC BY 4.0. The site-level file is one CSV with a source on every row:

import pandas as pd

sites = pd.read_csv("https://boomcellar.com/data/listed-wine-map.csv")

# every site one listed company owns, wherever it is
twe = sites[sites.company == "Treasury Wine Estates"]
print(twe[["name", "locality", "country", "stake_pct", "source_url"]])

# how many mapped sites each country hosts
print(sites.country.value_counts())
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Editorial research and market data, not investment advice.

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