Rhone Day 4: Chateauneuf du Pape

This morning we visited another winery at Chateauneuf-du-Pape. This one was much larger and more commercial.

Again we heard about terroir and how the ground affects the taste. This garden grew vines in four types of local soils as demonstration plots: rounded pebbles, red sandstone, limestone, and sand. Wines may be made of grapes grown in one soil or in a blend. At our tasting they told us what kind of soil the grapes had been grown in

Here the barrels came in a variety of sizes.

On to the ruins of Pope Jean XXII's castle.