M. Chapoutier Chateauneuf-Du-Pape La Bernardine 750 ML

Michel Chapoutier started his love-affair with wine at 26. A self-taught enthusiast and a curious visionary he brings to the winery a new approach and a powerful ambition. An idea of wine that soon became all-embracing. “Wine-grower, wine-maker and wine lover”. The choices he made marked a break with past principles and prejudices. A question of audacity and convictions he shares with his young team. An essential, emblematic choice too: he decided to change the taste associated with Maison M. Chapoutier, to avoid cultivating “a signature taste”, focusing instead on bringing out the difference and specific features of each terroir.

Chateauneuf’s history is extremely dense. One of the most important periods to retain goes back to the time when the Popes had their residence in Avignon in the Xvth Century. The village of Chateauneuf-du-Pape was at that time the papal summer residence (Jean XXII, Urbin V and Innocent VI) and they succeeded in imposing its wines. In the early Xxth Century winegrowers were regularly acknowledged for their wines by a special board of judges which was set up under the instigation of Baron “le Roy de Boiseaumarie.”