History

 

History and geography celebrate for its historical past (Charles VII, Jeanne d' Arc, François rabelais, Chinon) is also also by its wines, “a wine for intellectuals” (Jules Romain).

Its vineyard distributed on both sides of banks of vienne, extends on 2200 hectares from the 19 communes which make this application.

Primarily planted frank cabernet with 98%, and of cabernet sauvignon for outputs which oscillate 40 and 50 hl/hectare, in profits from two paramount factors

A semi-oceanic, exceptionally soft climate and a variety of sols indispensable to the personality of its wines, can that one finds in plain of sands and gravels, in plates and côteaux the argilo-silicieux ones and argilo-limestones. One discovers there also an elegant rosy wine, a superb white type of vine way wine or pineau of the Loire which remains rare