Château romanin
The vineyard is the property of Anne-Marie and Jean-Louis Charmolüe, former owners of the Castle Montrose, Second Grand Cru Classé Saint-Estèphe.
If you follow the course of the Rhône, once you draw level with the papal city of Avignon, you can perceive the Alpilles… After passing through C…te R…tie in Hermitage and Saint Joseph in Châteauneuf-du-Pape… you come to the gates of the Baux-de-Provence, in the Alpilles. It’s a brilliant ridge of light with a thousand folds, the last mountain before the Mediterranean Sea. On the northern slope, between Saint-Rémy de Provence and Eygalières, nature has drawn a triumphant “V”. This “V” is a geographical gap that creates dynamic natural updrafts. You may be witness to a ballet of gliders above the ruins of an old castle from the Middle Ages. This is where you’ll find Romanin…
In Provence, and in the Alpilles region, the Château Romanin site is one of those rare places where the landscape, the ancient stones, the light and the very air itself represent something of exception, but difficult to define…
58 hectares of vines, protected by the mountain, the forest and the scrubland (the mountain crest forms the boundary of the 250 hectare property).
Average age of the vines
Yield
Varieties
If you follow the course of the Rhône, once you draw level with the papal city of Avignon, you can perceive the Alpilles… After passing through C…te R…tie in Hermitage and Saint Joseph in Châteauneuf-du-Pape… you come to the gates of the Baux-de-Provence, in the Alpilles. It’s a brilliant ridge of light with a thousand folds, the last mountain before the Mediterranean Sea. On the northern slope, between Saint-Rémy de Provence and Eygalières, nature has drawn a triumphant “V”. This “V” is a geographical gap that creates dynamic natural updrafts. You may be witness to a ballet of gliders above the ruins of an old castle from the Middle Ages. This is where you’ll find Romanin…
In Provence, and in the Alpilles region, the Château Romanin site is one of those rare places where the landscape, the ancient stones, the light and the very air itself represent something of exception, but difficult to define…
58 hectares of vines, protected by the mountain, the forest and the scrubland (the mountain crest forms the boundary of the 250 hectare property).
Average age of the vines
- 21 hectares planted between 1961 and 1978.
- 37 hectares planted between 1989 and 1999.
Yield
- The average yield is approximately 25 hl/ha.
- The yields vary from 20 to 45 hl/ha depending on the plots and the varieties.
Varieties
- Red varieties: syrah, cabernet sauvignon, grenache, cinsault, counoise, mourvedre, carignan.
- White varieties: rolle, bourboulenc, clairette, ugni white, grenache white.
Wines
- AOC Baux de Provence La Chapelle de Romanin Red * BIO
- AOC Baux de Provence Château Romanin Red * BIO
- AOC Baux de Provence "Le Cœur de Romanin" Red * BIO
- AOC Coteaux d'Aix en Provence Château Romanin White ** BIO
- AOC Coteaux d'Aix en Provence Château Romanin White ** BIO
- AOC Baux de Provence Château Romanin Rosé * BIO
- Le Mas de Romanin, Vin de Pays des Alpilles BIO
- Le Mas de Romanin, Vin de Pays des Alpilles BIO
** Aged in oak barrel
* Exist also in different formats (50 cl, half bottles and magnums)"