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Sting renamed his Message in a Bottle wine as Roxanne.

The famous singer, Sting, produces a range of six wines from a Chianti estate called Il Palagio.

Actually, he produces Message in a Bottle and a flagship Super Tuscan blend, named Sister Moon.

At a tasting in London, where Sting and his wife Trudie Styler presented the portfolio of wines, the singer announced that the blend of 80% Sangiovese, 10% Merlot and 10% Syrah, named Messag...

Music is like wine and wine is like music. The owners of the Il Palagio winery are primarily known from the worlds of pop music and the movies, but now also for their red wines.

Film producer, actress Trudie Styler and her husband, rock star Sting, have been producing organic red wine in the Chianti wine region of Tuscany, Italy, since 2007. They are always looking to improve the quality of their wines.

When FINE visited Il Palagio for t...

Trudie and Sting ended up as owners of an Italian vineyard mostly by accident. They already had strong personal links to the Mediterranean country, after their daughter Coco was born there in 1990 while Sting was creating his first album of the decade, Soul Cages. The daughter’s arrival and the father’s creative effort indelibly rooted the family in the Italian soil. “It was a happy time which is forever in our memory. A lot of the themes for ...

 The estate did not give up all of its old wine customs, however. Sting and Trudie wanted to keep some of the old style but combine it with new ideas. Growing the wine organically was one of these ideas.

Trudie explains that taking on organic farming practices forms a part of a larger process related to biodynamic agriculture.

“We do our best to produce our wines as naturally as possible. We are not yet officially registered as an organi...