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A RESPECTFUL VINEYARD
A RESPECTFUL VINEYARD
The expertise of the Castelneau team is based on extensive training in oenology, but also on the knowledge and careful observation of the terroir. Our policy of planting hedges around the Castelneau vines over the last ten years has enabled us to no longer use insecticides. Theses hedges provide a home for the typhlodromus mites, predators of mites and other insects that attack vines. The 4.8 kilometres of hedgerows planted around the vines make Castelneau the first vineyard protecting itself in this way.
THE WINES
The Castelneau estate extends over about a hundred hectares, surrounded by woodlands boasting oaks, chestnuts, hornbeams and false acacias. Whilst about forty hectares include fields of wheat, maize, sunflowers or are lying fallow, around thirty are dedicated to quality vineyards, twenty-three hectares of red and seven of white.
THE CELLAR (WINERY AND STORES)
An exchange of land in return for vines with the neighbouring abbey at la Sauve-Majeure attests to the fact that wine has been produced here since the 12th century. Today the Cellar is divided into three sections : The winery, The conservation cellar and the ageing cellar.