Rank #2027
Barbara Banke & family
Net worth $2.1B
Wine · United States
- Born
- Aug 01, 1953
- Age
- 72
- Source
- Wine
- Residence
- Geyserville, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
- Education
- JD, UC Hastings; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Net worth over time
Biography
- Starting in the mid 1980s, Barbara Banke built Jackson Family Wines alongside her late husband, Jess Jackson (d. 2011), into a multinational enterprise.
- In addition to its signature Kendall-Jackson wines from Sonoma, the group owns La Crema and nearly 40 other wineries in California, Oregon, Chile, Italy and beyond.
- Banke is chairman and proprietor of the group, which she owns with her and Jess's blended family of five children.
- She helps lead the family's Stonestreet Farms racing stables, with horses on farms in Kentucky and Florida.
- Banke, a former land use lawyer, met Jess Jackson when they were law partners at the same firm.
- In early 2024, Kendall-Jackson inked a deal to become the official wine of the National Basketball Association.