(Forbes) - A majority stake in legendary Burgundy producer Domaine Bonneau du Martray was recently sold to Enos Stanley Kroenke, owner of California’s Screaming Eagle and Jonata, and a number of professional sports teams, for an undisclosed amount. His move into the world of Burgundian wine now puts him at the helm of an estate that had previously been in the same family for approximately 200 years.

Charles Curtis MW, a Master of Wine now with the fine-wine consultancy firm WineAlpha, highlighted the importance of Bonneau du Martray in an email to me. In response to my question about what makes it so special, he wrote, “You mean besides the fact that it is largely the original gift from the emperor Charlemagne to the church and that it constitutes one of the greatest white wine terroirs on the planet?”

The change in ownership, then, is significant.