GRAND VIN DE BORDEAUX
Visit and tasting
Wine lovers, art or architecture fans, the Château du Petit Puch welcomes you to tell its atypical history, to organise a visit of its winery & of its incredible barrels cellar or to taste its wine in its tasting-room mixing XIV century architecture & Street-Art decoration.
We are open all the year, every day on appointment. Please contact us to organize your visit.
☎ : +33 (0)5 57 24 52 36
@: chateaupetitpuch@yahoo.fr
The price for the visit and tasting is 5 € per person.
Our property is labelised " Vignobles et Découvertes " et " Vignobles & Chais en Bordelais ".
Art and Wine
What's more natural than matching art and wine. Both are among the first expressions of human greatness. Dozens of millenaries ago, as soon as he straightened on his hind legs and took shelter in caves, man developed his artistic expression. A few millenaries ago, while the ancient civilisations started to build around the Mediterranean berth, vine culture expanded strongly. First reserved to the elite, also recognised for its medicinal virtues, consumption of wine enlarged progressively to entire populations. At the entry of the twentieth century, wine was so part of the people daily diet than taxes collected on it represented a forth of the French State budget (more or less balanced at the time !). We were then furthering away from the artistic expression.
Today wine consumption became again more selective. The rough red wine disappears at the benefit of, on one hand industrial branded wines some well made, and on the other, fortunately, nice wines expressing their soil. Obviously our interest lies with these ones. They magnify these millenaries of culture, refinement, human conviviality and quality which are transforming these great wines in real artwork.
The Château du Petit Puch is among these ones. It is therefore natural that its owners favour an artistic expression in sculpture and painting in addition of wine with masterpieces of the local artist Gino Ruggieri or of the Street-Art movement housed in our atypical tasting room.
The wine route
The Château du Petit Puch belongs to the St Emilion-Pomerol-Fronsac route, one of the 6 Bordeaux wines routes of our partner Bordeaux Wine Trip, and is an ideal starting-point.
"St Emilion is renowned not only for its wines but for the town itself, dominating the Dordogne valley from its hilltop position. This vineyard make up the first vineyards in the world to be awarded the title of ‘Cultural Landscape’ by UNESCO on the World Heritage List in 1999 as a historical landscape that remains intact and continues as a working activity.Nearby Pomerol is much smaller but shares its Roman history with that of St Emilion. A stone’s throw you can visit Libourne, the principal town of the region."
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