WineRegionsOld WorldFranceRhoneSouth
Created in August 1967 the Appellation "Cotes du Rhone Villages" distinguishes the best wines for which the growers voluntarily accept a more rigorous control to ensure that they present the very essence of the qualities of their sun and their soil. The Chusclan vineyard is rooted in the stony arid soil south-west of Pont-Saint-Esprit, a step away from the nuclear installations at Marcoule, and indeed one of its famed wines bears this name. Louis XIV loved these full-blooded roses with the bouquet redolent of plum and acacia, and took a supply from a vineyard since named the Clos du Roil, near to Chusclan. Laudun dominates the Rhone from its plateau where Caesar set up his camp to control the valley. It is the most distinctive soil of the southern Cotes du Rhone for its white wines, so delicate and honest, and fruity in their youth. There are also excellent roses and red wines lighter than those of the left bank, but elegant and well fashioned.