2022 Pampelonne Cotes de Provence Blanc, France

Beautiful, slightly straw-yellow color with clear, silver reflections. On the first nose, white flesh fruit followed by a buttered note. It is an expressive nose with aromas of white flower. A frank attack on the palate followed by a beautiful texture : beautiful fat, citrus aroma and freshness." 

In the 19th century, under the Napoleonic regime, at the time of the Italian campaign, Jean-Antoine Falcon, one of the ancestors of the Gasquet family born in 1772, worked as treasurer for the government. 

Appointed to Saint-Tropez, he married Marie-Madeleine Cauvin, heiress of an old local family who brought him land in Pampelonne as a dowry, where he had a "villa" built. His eldest son Adrien had the Château de Pampelonne converted into its current state under the Second Empire. When he died in 1869, he bequeathed the estate to his wife Amance de Gasquet.

At that time, there was no cultivation. Then, in 1920, after the First World War, the Gasquet family decided to plant vines on two hectares which grew over time to reach an area of ​​50 hectares today.