Rhone Day 4: Chateauneuf du Pape

This morning we visited another winery at Chateauneuf-du-Pape. This one was much larger and more commercial. The architecture is reminiscent of near-by Avignon.

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.