Richard Gere buys Madrid mansion with wine cellar

Hollywood actor Richard Gere has packed up and moved to Spain to start a new life after buying an 11 million euro mansion, complete with private wine cellar.

The Beautiful woman star will take up residence in his new Spanish property, located in the northern Madrid municipality of Alcobendas, with his Spanish wife Alejandra Silva and their two children. He is moving from Connecticut, New England, where the family has lived for six years.

Gere called the move “a great adventure” and praised Spain for its “extraordinary food”, although the country’s winemakers may not be too impressed that he chose to partner with an Italian region where he could make his own wine.

In 2012, Gere launched a Tuscan Brunello produced by Tenuta San Filippo di Montalcino and sold under the name Bedford Post. The actor who also starred in An officer and a gentlemanis said to have had a lifelong love affair with Italian wine.

Gere, who once said: “I drink an enormous amount of wine; it is unthinkable to have a meal without wine” also ensured that a Soave made it onto the wine list at the inn he once owned with his ex-wife, the actress Carey Lowell. He also met his current wife in Positano, Italy in 2014 before marrying her in 2018.

Gere previously told The Wall Street Journal that he likes “a big oak Chardonnay”. He has also previously said he doesn’t think you need to spend “more than $85 to get a good bottle of wine” and has supported a number of wine charities, including ‘Pneumonia’s Last Syrah’, which helped raise funds for The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which helps immunize children around the world.

Gere’s new neighbors will no doubt seek to persuade him of Spain’s many vinous benefits, and if he wants to keep it local, there are three sub-zones within DO Madrid which make quality wines, mainly from Tempranillo and Garnacha.

“It will be wonderful to be closer to Alejandra’s family, her lifelong friends and her culture,” Gere told Vanity Fair Spain. “She was very generous in giving me six years in my world, so it’s only fair that I give her at least another six years of life in hers.”

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