Chateau Barbebelle
France, Rognes
About
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro'; min-height: 14px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';"> Lands cultivated in their time by the Romans, a chateau and a landscaped park several hundred years old, 300 hectares all around them 45 hectares of vines, cultivated in family:</p> <p> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">Welcome to Château Barbebelle, one of the oldest winemaking Aix en Provence estates.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro'; min-height: 14px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';"> EXCEPTIONAL TERROIR </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">At 16 kms north of Aix-en-Provence, on the road to the Luberon, the vineyard entirely in the Coteaux appellation of Aix-en-Provence occupies 45 hectares in a domain of 300 hectares.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">- In the heart of a protected flora and fauna, between the cypress trees, the pines umbrellas and the holm oaks, the vines of the Château draw all their riches to give quality wines.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">- Grape varieties: Grenache, syrah, cabernet-sauvignon, cinsault, vermentino, sauvignon.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">- Homogeneous territory of clayey-limestone slopes on a hilly relief, favorable to viticulture, very representative of Provence (excellent sunshine, clayey-calcareous soils that keep the humidity, uneven relief that ensures good ventilation, average altitude of the vineyard - 370 meters - worth the cool nights, even in the middle of summer, mistral de Provence, which naturally cleanses the grapes.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">- Practical respect for the environment and for the sake of quality a reasoned agriculture validated by the label «Mediterranean nutrition»: treatments are minimized and weeding is mechanical.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">- Cellars that combine tradition and modernity (barrels in oak barrels, temperature controlled tanks, temperature control, pneumatic pressing, inerted pumps ...)</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 11.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Minion Pro';">- Generations who work together: Brice & Madeleine Herbeau are complementary. Know-how and modernity (packaging, communication ...)</p>