Brad Pitt has seized back control of the French vineyard he owned with ex-wife Angelina Jolie in the latest twist in the so-called ‘War of the Rosés’.

The Chateau Miraval estate, which produces an award-winning sparkling rosé, is at the centre of a long-running court battle between the pair.

Pitt’s lawyers have accused Jolie of deliberately depriving him of complete ownership and ‘forcing a stranger into [his] family home’ by selling her share of the business to Russian businessman Yuri Shefler.

Now a court in Luxembourg has stripped Mr Shefler’s company of a portion of shares originally gifted to Ms Jolie by Pitt – putting him back in the driving seat.

A source close to the actor said the ruling leaves Schefler, who is head of the Stolichnaya vodka empire, with ‘virtually no say’ in the multi-million-pound business in Provence.

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Brad Pitt’s lawyers have accused Angelina Jolie of deliberately depriving him of complete ownership and ‘forcing a stranger into [his] family home’ by selling her share to a Russian businessman

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The 1,300-acre Chateau Miraval estate in 2008 prior to the celebrity couple purchasing it as 60-40 partners, with Pitt the majority shareholder