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

The Beautiful woman star will move into his new Spanish property, located in the northern municipality of Alcobendas in Madrid, with his Spanish wife Alejandra Silva and their two children. He is making the move 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 have been very impressed that he chose to partner with an Italian region with which he started making his own wine to make.

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 a great deal of wine; it is unthinkable to eat without wine” also put a Soave on the wine list of the inn he once owned with his ex-wife, actress Carey Lowell. He also met his current wife in Positano, Italy, in 2014, before marrying her in 2018.

Gere told it earlier The Wall Street Journal that he likes “a big, oaky Chardonnay.” He has also said in the past that he doesn’t think you need to “spend more than $85 to get a good bottle of wine,” and has supported a number of charity wine events, including ‘Pneumonia’s Last Syrah,’ which raises money has raised funds for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which helps immunize children around the world.

Gere’s new neighbors will no doubt want to convince him of Spain’s many wine merits, and if he wants to keep it local, there are three subzones within DO Madrid that make quality wines, largely 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 letting me live in my world for six years, so it’s only fair that I give her at least another six years in hers.”

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