More than 2000 years of wine making
The Provençal terroir was first cultivated more than 2,600 years ago to make wine. Around 600 BCE, Greek immigrants founded the city we know today as Marseille. The culture of wine then followed the Greeks and in this way, vines and grape varieties were spread throughout Provence.
Today, wine making is of course much more industrialized. The majority of the grapes are harvested in August, by machine.
Shortly after picking…
The grapes pass through a destemmer which separates the berries from the stalks where they are immediately cooled. The vines, the vines, the grapes and the precise moment of the harvest are meticulously monitored by our oenologist, Lucie Jolivet, in order to constantly optimize production and obtain the best quality.
The rosé wine is immediately stored in thermo-regulated stainless steel vats, while the red wine is put in oak barrels.
The juice from the different grapes/varieties are kept separately until December when the work of assembling the year’s wine begins. Bottling of the rosé begins in February, while the red will have to wait until August, after 16 months, before being bottled.
At Château la Valetanne, we produce Two red wines , Three different rosés as well as Two white wines.
