Wine connoisseurs grow their own wines.

Are you a wine connoisseur and would you like to serve your own excellent wines in future? Would you like to spoil and impress your guests with treasures from your own vineyard? Then you should definitely take a look at the four exquisite vineyards that Christie’s International Real Estate recently featured in its online magazine Luxury Defined and has put up for sale.

And you will certainly welcome the sultry summer heat of August, the season of veraison, when growers see the swelling grapes soften and change colour from their infant green.

In honour of veraison, Luxury Defined presents a portfolio of properties for the true, wine-loving do-it-yourselfer: luxury vineyard estates in the languid, lush, and lazy summerlands of the world’s great wine regions.

And these are the four gems that most people can only dream of – perhaps over a glass of fine wine:

Montepulciano Wine Estate in Tuscany, Italy