La Vieille Ferme is a genuine wine full of aromas !
To accompany it, a traditional Cuisine with Chicken and fresh Goats Cheese.
With notes of white flowers and an exotic nose this wine prompted us to cook with garlic and pink ginger. This brings a delicate touch with an Asian influence.

Download recipe:  La Vieille Ferme White with Chicken Ravioli

Sasha Speicher, a well-known German journalist in the wine trade visited us last summer to write an article for Weinwelt Magazine about Perrin & Fils, specialists of wines from the Southern Rhône Valley.

Sasha is an enthusiastic cyclist just like Jean-Pierre Perrin and therefore it was only natural for them to visit the different Terroirs around the Dentelles de Montmirail and the Mont Ventoux by bike.

The article published in Weinwelt magazine in October-November 2008 is very interesting and available to download for those of you who speak German: Download the article

For those of you who don’t, here are a few photos of the day out.

The ground at Beaucastel is marked by the violence wrought by the Rhone river. It consists of a layer of marine molasses (sandstone) of the Miocene period, covered by alpine alluvium. The presence in this topsoil of a great number of rounded stones, known as "galets", bears evidence of the time when the Rhone, then a torrent, tore fragments of rock from the Alps and deposited them along its course.

This is the story of the typical soil of Beaucastel. These "galets" make a significant contribution to the quality of the wines: they retain the heat of the day and radiate it to the vines during the night...

Les Gouttes de Dieu is a Japanese Manga about wine. It has been hugely successful in the past years in Japan and Korea.

The story goes like this : « When the prestigious oenologist Yutaka Kanzani dies, his will is very clear : his amazing wine cellar will become the property of whichever of his 2 sons solves the 12 enigmas regarding 12 wines.  He will then discover a 13th mysterious wine, unknown to everyone, named « Les gouttes de Dieu ». A thriller style treasure hunt opposing the 2 brothers then starts… »

On our return from Japan, we brought back Volume 11 of this Manga where Beaucastel appears on the back cover and on the central page.