Images of Rousset-les-Vignes and Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes

 

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

 

Bruno Gigondan of Domaine Gigondan, one of the two producers to bottle AOC Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes, along with the cave co-op

 

Neighbouring Rousset-les-Vignes

 

Sandstone soils of Rousset-les-Vignes, known locally as ‘safre’

 

Wild thyme growing on safre

 

Belgian Jean T’Kint of Domaine la Banate, one of the three producers of AOC Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Rousset-les-Vignes

 

Stéphane Barnaud of Domaine la Bouvade, the second producer of AOC Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Rousset-les-Vignes (the third is the cave co-op)

 

A refreshing glass of Côtes-du-Rhône rosé from by the Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes cave co-op at L’Auberge in Saint-Pantaléon