Saint Cosme

In the heart of the appellation Gigondas, the Château de Saint Cosme is an exceptio- nal estate, with its Gallo-Roman fermentation vats perfectly preserved. This fantastic historical site gives a good idea how our ancesters the gallo-romans were living. The property has been in our family since 1490 and we have been vignerons for 14 generations.

We have 15 has of old vines (average 60 years old) with a yield of around 27Hos/Ha. The ter...

LE POSTE

Le Poste encircles the Saint Cosme roman chapel. It contains three very tiny parcels : one of Clairette and three of Grenache. This vine was replanted by my father Henri Barruol in 1963. The history of this vine is very special. Jean IV de Chalon-Arlay (1443-1502) was prince of Orange, seigneur d'Arlay, de Nozeroy et de Montfort. He is an ancester of the Orange-Nassau family whose Beatrix, Queen of Holland is part of. He was common...

We have 15 has of old vines (average 60 years old) with a yield of around 27Hos/Ha. We produce only Gigondas wines from our vineyards which encircle the Chateau. It was with the "savoir-faire" of a vigneron we created in 1997 a negociant activity that one could call a "Negociant-Vigneron". My wish was to become a negociant which would work with the spirit of a vigneron using ancient methods. This was meaning: being and remaining a small produc...