Chateau de Saint Martin

Château de Saint-Martin - Cru Classé A family owned vineyard since 1740

Château de Saint Martin is a lovely 100 hectares estate with 50 hectares of vineyards. History is prevalent there. Back in the 1st century BC, the Romans - pioneers of winegrowing in Gaul - founded one of the very first wine-growing estates in France.

From the 10th to the 18th century, the Lérins monks turned it into a wine-growing priory, and a superb underground cellar, built in the 12th and 16th century, still in use today.

Since 1740, the same family of French nobility has handed the Château down from one generation to the next, and especially from one woman to the next.

The only man to have been at the head of Château de Saint Martin was Count Edme de Rohan-Chabot, a well-known figure in the world of wine. Now, Adeline de Barry, his granddaughter, the current owner of Château de Saint Martin, wants to share that rich historical past via her wines.

Certified with the HVE (High Environmental Value) Level 3 label since 2017, the Château focuses on 4 lines of action: - Pesticide reduction: Essential oils, water vortexing... - Pastoralism: Natural mowing and spreading of organic fertiliser - Natural fertilisation: Planting a mixture of plants between the rows of vines to provide a range of nutrients as well as antiseptic and mechanical benefits. - Water management: Drip irrigation system in compliance with sustainable use Terra Vitis is THE signature of wine-producers who respect Nature, Mankind and Wine. Complementary with HVE, this certification label considers the whole process until the bottle. Before anything else, it is a global approach for a whole sustainable viticulture. Moreover it also has a social dimension. The Château gets inspiration from the fundamentals of sustainable, organic and biodynamic agricultural movements, taking the best from each one... and composing its own environmentally-friendly strategy!