CHATEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE

Dominating the village to which it gave its name, the famous castle in ruin was built in the XIVth century, vineyards put around by walls were planted in the neighborhood and began to produce red and white wines very appreciated in the region and sold to the end of the XVIIIth century under the name of " wine of Avignon ". Benefiting from the Controlled Origin Label from the implementation of the system, in 1936, the soil of Châteauneuf-du-Pape is more various that somewhere else, Alluvionnaires.

Wines alloweded are many because it has not less thirteen of it, going of the black grenache and the syrah to mourvèdre, muscardin and bourboulenc ( white vine). Most of the wine growers make play a big role only three or four vines, the syrah, the mourvèdre and the grenache being the main things. A part of the vineyard occupies a ground covered with rolled pebbles which we expected rather to find by the sea. These store the diurnal heat and restore it during the night. We can distribute red in two groups: light and fruity to drink fast and the powerful to the flaveur of venison which are wines with a good aging capacity. The whites often have a certain languor, but the progress of the roussanne contributes to their improvement.