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The “Château Rouquette-sur-Mer” vineyard is set up amphitheatrically above the cliffs of the “ Massif de la Clape ”, this ancient island on the Languedoc coast in Roman times .
Family estate for four generations, it is with passion that Jacques Boscary - who received this property from his grandfather Henry Lapierre - manages and develops this preserved site with his wife Dominique and his children François and Arnaud.
Long called "Insula laci" because of its numerous lakes, the basins of which can be seen today, the Massif de la Clape was, more than six hundred years ago, a steep, beautifully wooded island, the largest of the delta archipelago.
Between the 1st and the 13th century, the sea reached Narbonne and even exceeded the site of the city to the east. In 150 AD, Narbonne was a port and La Clape, an island!
But with the evolution of the climate, the floods of the Aude become frequent, and the land gains on the sea thanks to the Pyrenean alluvium carried from the source of the river which feeds the river. Thus, in the 14th century, the Massif de la Clape naturally attached itself to the continent.
La Clape was already inhabited in the Neolithic period and it became famous from 118 BC by the Roman conquest which made Narbonne the capital of this new province. He was enriched by the famous “villas” and the cultivation of the vine, which was then a privilege of Rome, was authorized there approximately at this time.
More recently, the old Rouquette castle, built in the 13th century and remodeled in the 18th century, a freestone country house now in ruins, keeps the memory of this period.
The current operating buildings have been established since 1880 closer to the sea, at the foot of the Clape cliffs.
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