The Pastourel family farms
this 95-acre Domain planted with Small White Muscat Vines. They produce
a range of sweet
and dry wines whose quality is much appreciated by
connoisseurs
throughout France and elsewhere in the world.
The Château La Peyrade was
built at the end of the 18th C
on the shores of the White Water Lake
facing the "Isle of Sète".
Owned by a Mr Ratie, the then mayor
of the Frontignan, it
became
a viscounty when the owner was made a lord
by Louis XVIII.
LOUIS XVIII wanted to thank his new
lord for having helped
facilitate the Duke of Angoulême's departure
for Spain when
Napoleon returned to France from the Isle of Elba.
The
Viscount of Peyrade lived in the Château until 1849.
The Pastourel family farms
this 95-acre Domain planted with
