Crous St Martin 14 Items

Crous St Martin is located in the north-east of the Chateauneuf-du-Pape appellation. The origin dates from 1879 which coincides with the restauration of St Martin's Cross ("Crous" in local provincial language), which the monks had installed to indicate the road to Chateauneuf. St Martin is considered the messenger of civic rights and sharing. An allusion was already made at sharing wine, by integrating the shape of a bottle in the Cross itself.

The soil is composed of river stones, the famous "galets roulés", which got cumulated in the area millions of years ago, during the ice age period. These stones are made of quartzite, a pure and hard silica. This layer of stones is sometimes several meters deep, and mixed with a brownish clay. From this soil the wine gets its depth and concentration. The stones cumulate the sun heat during the day, and reject it during the night. They also have a second soil type, less known, but equally important: an alluvial soil of fine sand mixed with clay. This soil type if very beneficial for the finesse and elegance in the wines. The mixture of these two soil types brings a lot more complexity in our wine and continuity over the different vintages.