Images of Saint-Gervais
December 27, 2019
Claire Clavel of Domaine Clavel, one of the few private estates bottling wine in AOC Saint-Gervais Frédéric Sablayrolles, Director of Production at Celliers des Chartreux on the Soleillan plateau in Saint-Gervais. They bought the local cave co-operative in 2015 and now make one white and one red AOC Saint-Gervais. Limestone soils of the Soleillan plateau, the smaller of…
Images of Suze-la-Rousse
December 20, 2019
The village of Suze-la-Rousse, Mont Ventoux in the background The Château of Suze-la-Rousse, which now houses the Université du Vin Flat, stony garrigues terroir of Suze-la-Rousse Ann Vermeersch of LePlan-Vermeersch Vincent Boyer of Domaine la Bastide and president of the appellation Suze-la-Rousse Outcrops of sand at the north of the appellation…
Images of Saint-Andéol
December 13, 2019
Philippe Faure, President of AOC Saint-Andéol, in vineyards overlooking one of its four communes, Saint-Marcel-d'Ardèche Most of the soil in the appellation consists of galets roulés on hillsides. The winery with the cylindrical tower in the background is Domaine Saladin Roland Terrasse of Château Rochecolombe There is a small zone of clay limestone soil in AOC…
Images of Rousset-les-Vignes and Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes
December 6, 2019
The little village of Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes The massif de la Lance, marking the limit of the Côtes-du-Rhône growing area Jean-François Julian (l), president of the Cave Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes, and Philippe Barral (r) a member of the cave Philippe's vineyard, 400m up in the clay limestone hillsides of Saint-Pantaléon, with the Lance massif in cloud ……