Vineyard of Pediment

Geography

The vineyard of Pediment is small Vignoble French located at horse on the Haute-Garonne and the Tarn-et-Garonne between the Garonne and Tarn to about thirty kilometers in the north of Toulouse.

The vineyard

The vineyard extends on 2.300 hectares distributed out of 20 communes, of which Fronton, Saint-Rustice, Villaudric, Villeneuve-the-Bouloc…

200 members Wine grower S with the Cooperative wine cave and 60 particular wine storehouses produce approximately 100.000 hectolitres including 85% of red Wine and 15% of rosy Wine.

the AOC Coasts of Frontonnais

AOC Côtes of Frontonnais is a Vin obtained starting from an old man Cépage the Négrette at a rate of 50 to 70% minimum and of the type of vines Syrah Cot, frank Cabernet, Sauvignon, Fer servadou, Gamay, Cinsaut, Mauzac

The type of vine Négrette is an exclusive type of vine with Name Coasts of Frontonnais, type of vine that one whom one nowhere does not find elsewhere in the world.

Production 2004

15 million bouteilles/an
80% of red, rosy wine 20%
20% with export
80% in France including 40% in GMS, 40% in the traditional circuits, 20% on sale direct.

History

Pediment counts among oldest Vignoble S. They are the Romans who planted the first stock S on the grounds dominating the valley of the Tarn. At the 12th century, with the protection of the Pope Calixte II come in 1119 to devote the church, the vineyard is the property of the Knights of the Ordre of Jean Saint of Jerusalem, later Ordre of Malta.

The Order built the village around the church Saint-Jean-Baptist, built on the site of the current church. The pious donations flow and the Order creates in Fronton a Commanderie directed by a tutor. This tutor resides at Fronton and is the lord. The village is built with the shelter of the ditches and the ramparts, and the life is organized under the protection of the Château seigneurial. In 1400, the commandery is removed and Pediment concerns directly large the Prieuré of Toulouse.

The life of Pediment is marked by the wars of religion, the stays of troops, meteorology and exceptionally, Fronton accommodates an important character: Philippe '' Beautiful the '', Charles IX, his cousin the future Henri IV, Louis XIII which touches the patients of the scrofula in 1632…

At the 16th century, the importance of Pediment decrease because the attacks of the Protesting S are fatal for him. Concerns very ground with ground furnish the hours and the days: latent wars of religion until in 1628, passages and dreaded stays of troops, meteorology and the Plague, the market and harvests, the daily Bread, the Corn and the Wine.

The fame of the wines reaches its apogee only at the 18th century: the protectionism from which the wines of Gironde profit ends and the wines can be exported via Bordeaux towards the whole Europe. This beautiful prosperity does not resist at the end of the 19th century to the Phylloxéra. Thanks to the tough efforts of generations of Vine grower S, the Vin S of Pediment find their noble letters by obtaining in 1975 the Appellation of controlled origin.

External bonds

wine of Pediment

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