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Chateau Raspail /
Chateau Saint-Jean
Caroline and François Meffre - Sister
and brother
Le Colombier
84190 Gigondas
Tel. +33
490 658 893
Direct sale: At Chateau Raspail
Mail: chateau.raspail@wanadoo.fr
Gabriel
Meffre was born in a wine grower family, but no one could foresee that he -
when he founded a negociantfirm in 1936 - would become the owner of the
biggest amount of hectares of AOC-vines in France - more than 900 ha -
before his decease in 1987.
After the death of Gabriel
Meffre his empire was divided between his three children:
Jack Meffre
Domaine Bois des
Dames
Sylvette Brechet Chateau
de Vaudieu Domaine
des Bosquets
Chistian Meffre inherited Chateau Raspail
together with other properties:
Chateau de Ruth (St. Cécile-les-Vignes - sold in 2009), Chateau Saint Jean (Travaillan)
Chateau
Raspail
Covers 40 ha of Gigondas.
Gigondas
2016: 60% Grenache, 30%
Syrah and 10% Mourvedre.
Chateau
Saint Jean
Covers 140 ha of Cotes du
Rhone / Cotes du Rhone Plan de Dieu. The domain is not open to the public.
Cotes du Rhone Village Plan de Dieu
80% Grenache, 15% Syrah and 5% Carignan.
Cotes du Rhone
80% Grenache, 10% Syrah, 5% Mourvedre and 5% Carignan.
Chateau
Raspail has a remarkable history as it was built for money earned by buying
and then selling a romain statue (replica of Diadumenos Polyclitus) discovered by excavations in Vaison-la-Romaine and then
bought by Eugene Raspail (1812-1888) for a reasonable price and shortly
after sold to British Museum for 25.000 Francs. (A copy is at the tasting
room at Raspail)
These money
enabled Eugene Raspail to build Chateau Raspail situated by vineyards he had
inherited from his father. In
the years when the chateau was built the phylloxera attacked the vines in
Europe in the1860-ties. After that some years passed by before vines again
were planted by another owner of Chateau Raspail
Chateau Raspail reminds of an Italien villa and this is because Eugene
Raspail in his younger days were exiled in Italy because of revolutionary
activities.
In 1979 the legendary Gabriel Meffre bought
Chateau Raspail and it's vineyards.
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