This is what I am talking about. It is the plants that matter. Their grandparents started with those vines, so today they can have some great business and wealth. Everyone should make sure there will be enough fruits, perennials and useful plants for future generations. If you have land of course! This window is getting tighter and tighter. And lately, the weather challenges will be on the rise as well.
Vines are usually the best for production when they get that serious rooting (about 100+ years). Ancestors didn't just think about how they will benefit from this but how will their family benefit from this. I bet that Shiraz was lit.
The family no longer own the winery, it's owned by Pernod Ricard so no wealth goes to the original family, but they honour and respect the heritage still, as stated in my post.
Thanks for your comment.
Ouu I missed that, sorry. Damn Pernod Ricard is gouging them like Godzilla. Well here is the problem then. When the family goes rather for money than heritage and legacy. What I learned from those takeovers, especially with the wine yards (Ex Sommelier and wine seller here :) the quality of wine goes down and there are two main reasons. The production usually goes up because big companies like PR have a big selling grid and impact and the "soul" is lost. Winemakers are very proud people and they leave their hearts in the bottle when a company willč always be a company. There is one and only goal - profit. Sometimes they keep the previous oenologist in the house and that makes it a bit better but still. When there are expectations from above the mistakes and shortcuts happen. Probably this is a reason why I am always more into small boutique wineries :/