Carl Doumani has sold his 6,000-to-8,000-case Quixote winery, vineyard and home in the Stags Leap District to a subsidiary of Le Melange, an American company owned by a Chinese firm. The story was first reported in the Wine Spectator blog by Napan James Laube.

Doumani confirmed that he got close to his asking price of about $29.5 million for the 42-acre-parcel with 29 acres of vines. He kept a nearby parcel of 2 acres, and intends to move into a house there and tend the petite sirah vines planted on that property.

Jinta, the subsidiary of Le Melange that bought Quixote, bought Hannah Nicole Vineyards & Winery in Brentwood in Contra Costa County in 2013. Hannah Nicole produces a number of wines, including cabernet, chardonnay, merlot, syrah and zinfandel.

Doumani, 81, is a legend in the valley. He bought and restored nearby Stags’ Leap Winery in 1972, and then created Quixote after selling that winery and vineyard to Beringer Estates, now Treasury, in 1997.

He took the name Quixote from Cervantes’ idealistic but impractical hero, with whom Doumani might have identified.