Foster's produces and markets an international portfolio of premium quality wines including Beringer, Lindemans, Penfolds, Rosemount Estate and Wolf Blass in the Americas. Beringer, America's favorite premium wine, began in the Napa Valley in the 1870s and has grown to a 7 million case brand. Other boutique and leading brands that form part of Foster's Californian wine portfolio include Chateau St. Jean, Chateau Souverain, Etude Wines, Greg Norman Estates, Stags' Leap Winery and Meridian Vineyards. The Americas is also a major market for Foster's Lager, with licensing and distribution agreements in Canada, the United States, and export agreements covering key markets in Central and South America. With annual beer sales of 6 million cases and wine sales of approximately 20 million cases, Foster's Americas employs 1,400 people.