Terraces - Château Pesquié - Ventoux 2017 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056
Coming from the Latin "Terras", "clod of earth", this word took the meaning of "levee de terre" forming a median maintained by a stone wall. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 The relief of Ventoux is characterized by the alternation of hills and valleys. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 To enhance this exceptional terroir, the hillsides have been converted into "terraces". 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 Even today, we find them in the Provençal countryside also called "restanques" or "rebanques". 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 With this name, the Chaudière family pays homage to the Provencal landscape "sculpted" by their ancestors as well as to the terraces of the garden of Château Pesquié. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 The culture of the vine must have existed for more than two thousand years at Château Pesquié. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 The recent discovery in the heart of the Côtes du Ventoux Appellation of a pottery and wine pottery workshop dating from Roman times (- 30 BC) confirms that our region is one of the oldest wine-growing areas in France 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 . 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 Long after the introduction by the Romans, the Church will play a fundamental role in the development of the vineyard, especially during the presence of the popes in Avignon in the 14th century. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 From centuries to centuries, the estate has passed into the hands of many Lords, from the Counts of Mormoiron to the Marquis de Reilhanette via the Lords of Maubec. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 The Château took its present form around the 1745s, with the balanced style of a Provencal country house. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 It was in 1970 that Odette and René Bastide bought the Château from a descendant of Alphonse Daudet, three years before the name Ventoux was recognized as an AOC. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 Then begins a story of love, sweat, choice and the future with this terroir. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 A story that continues today with Alexandre and Fréderic Chaudière, the third generation. 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056 A history of wines! 6b11bd6ba9341f0271941e7df664d056