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…

Date of rebirth
1988.

Owners
The vineyard is the property of Anne-Marie and Jean-Louis Charmolüe, former owners of the Castle Montrose, Second Grand Cru Classé Saint-Estèphe.

Management
Pascal Fraychet, manager.

Telephon
+334 90 92 45 87.

Technical information (figures June, 2007)
Complete area of domaine :	230 hectares	Almonds trees :	1.5 hectares
Olives Trees :	4 hectares	Vineyards :	55.5 hectares
Red Grape-Varieties (51.5 hectares) :
Syrah (27.9%), Grenache rouge (21%), Cabernet Sauvignon (19.9%), Mourvèdre (13.8%) Counoise (8.7%), Carignan (5.8%), Cinsault (2.9%)
White Grape-Varieties (4 hectares) :
Rolle (Vermentino) (68.9%), Ugni blanc (31.1%)
Age of grapevines and specific gravity of planting :
18 hectares planted between 1961 and 1981, specific gravity of planting = 4000 plants/ha 37.5 hectares planted between 1989 and 2005, specific gravity of planting = 4400 plants/ha
Yields :	between 25 hl and 30 hl/ha
Materials of the vats of wine production :	stainless steel et oak	Materials of the vats of wine aging :	stainless steel, cement et oak
Capacity of the winery :	5000 hectoliters	Surface of the cellar :	2500 m2
Oenologist advice :	Denis Dubourdieu
Characteristics of soils :
In the south of ownership : grapevines in terraces and slopes located on the first slopes of Alpilles. Pebbly, deep, argilo-calcareous soils, with a good natural draining. In the north of ownership : grapevines located on the flat part of domaine. Pebbly soils constituted by colluvions resting on alluvium sandy and pebbly.
Geographical location :
To Saint Rémy of Provence, in the middle of the massif of Alpilles, behind the airfield of Romanin, in the middle of the appellation The Baux of Provence. (20 km in the south of Avignon, 50 km in the west north of Aix in Provence and 60 km north of Marseille).
Appellation « The Baux de Provence » :
Appellation created in 1995 exclusively for red wines and pinkish wines by estrangement of the appellation Slopes of Aix in Provence. Complete area of the appellation: 325 hectares.80 % of the production of the appellation come from cultivated grapevines in organic farming or biodynamics.
The Biodynamie :
The whole vineyard is cultivated in biodynamie. This method has as foundation the respect for cycles and for natural balance of the plants : job of the soil, natural winter enherbement, burying of natural compost and the grass in spring, pulverization of natural preparations in the course of vegetative period to fight diseases, to ameliorate blossoming or ripening of the grapes. Preparations and compost are applied to the vineyard according to the lunar calendar. Quality-labels DEMETER and BIODYVIN, control of the conditions of contract by ECOCERT