Cameron Díaz launches wine with organic Catalunya grapes

The In Her Shoes and Charlie's Angels star, who will be 48 next month, has created the brand 'Aveline' jointly with her friend Katherine Power, and it so far includes one white and one rosé variety.

“If you're not drinking organic wine, what you're doing is drinking pesticides and who knows what else,” says the Hollywood legend.

“I've always believed that the key to wellbeing is in balance. Creating a 'clean' wine which is full of good things and free of dozens of unknown extra ingredients has helped me find this balance for when I'm enjoying a glass of wine.”

She describes the creation of Aveline as 'a birth' of what she considers to be her 'second child'.

The organic grapes, harvested in Catalunya, are 'fermented and processed without any unnecessary ingredients', Cameron says on her promotional video.

As a concept, it came up between her and Katherine Power during a conversation at her home in California, when Cameron realised that her efforts to lead a healthy lifestyle were 'all coming to nothing' with the wine she was drinking, so she started buying organic versions.

She described the change she felt after consuming the latter types to be 'radical', so she decided to market her own, mass-distributed and at an affordable price.

The two wines produced under the name of Aveline come in at US$24 a bottle (about €21) and can be purchased online direct from Cameron's firm, as well as through other wine-sellers online and physically, and is even retailed at supermarkets in California.

She is expecting to roll it out to stores all over the USA shortly.

A left-wing activist and supporter of Afghanistan and Iraq veterans' charities, Cameron also invested in the company Modern Acupuncture in October, and has written two 'healthy lifestyle' manuals – The Body Book, published in 2013, and The Longevity Book, launched in 2016.

Along with her husband, musician Benji Madden – whom she married in 2015 just a month into their relationship – Cameron Díaz became a mum for the first time in December, then aged 47 years and four months old.

She became pregnant with Benji's child, although she has not revealed anything about her new family unit – except that they had a little girl they named Raddix – so it is not known whether the baby is biologically her own or whether she went through an egg-donation process.

Even Cameron's and Benji's wedding was a discreet affair at her own house in California – unlike her previous high-profile relationships with Carlos de la Torre, Matt Dillon, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake, Paul Sculfor and Álex Rodríguez, between 1991, when she turned 18, and 2011, when she was 39, before a four-year spell of singlehood that ended happily with meeting the guitarist and record producer from the rock band Good Charlotte.

Cameron does not have any known close connections with Catalunya – or with Spain, for that matter – but is likely to have Spanish DNA in her ancestry; her father, the late Emilio Díaz, an oil-worker who retired aged 48, was born in California to Cuban immigrants who were descendants of the original Spanish colonists on the island.

The first photograph above shows Cameron Díaz recently, and was taken by La 100 Radios, and the second picture, with Katherine Power enjoying a glass of Aveline rosé, is from the actress' Instagram site (@camerondiaz).