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February 06, 2025

The Importance of Soft Pruning : Preserving Vine Health & Resilience

The harvest season is now behind us, with its intense pace and packed days. Winter brings a return to a calmer, yet equally crucial activity: pruning. This slow, thoughtful work, carried out vine by vine, is a key moment in the vineyard’s cycle. For us, it’s also the time when Eudes and Montaine train our […]

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January 24, 2025

Nourishing Prairie: A Pillar of Regenerative Agriculture

Nourishing Prairie: A Pillar of Regenerative Agriculture In our quest for sustainable farming, 20% of our land is dedicated to fallow periods to promote soil regeneration between cropping cycles. However, our flowering prairies are far more than mere fallow fields. Unlike resting land, our soils are continuously nurtured by cover crops that maintain living roots. […]

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January 22, 2025

Successes and Challenges: Cover Crops

Ah, cover crops… a term that might sound technical, but is at the heart of our efforts to preserve the health of our vines and our environment. If you’re curious about autumn activities at Château de Nages, let me take you behind the scenes of what we’re doing to care for our soils, with their […]

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November 06, 2024

Vintage 2024 : Navigating erratic weather patterns

After a dry and cold winter, the abundant rains of March recharged the soils, creating ideal conditions for the budding of the vines at the end of the month. In April, a mild and dry climate favored an optimal start for the vines. Starting May 27, regular rains brought climatic instability, conducive to the development […]

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February 01, 2024

The 2023 Vintage: a Year of Challenges & Elegance

The 2023 vintage proved to be a story of contrasts, alternating between scarcity and the promise of a regeneration, revealing the extent of challenges awaiting agriculture as a whole. It started with the second consecutive year of persistent winter drought, casting a worrisome shadow on our harvest’s prospects. The first four months witnessed a significant […]

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November 16, 2023

La première certification en agriculture régénérative viticole de France

Regenerative Agriculture  Here at Château de Nages and Domaine Gassier in Costières de Nîmes, we have adopted a new way of farming called regenerative agriculture. It helps fight climate change by placing ecosystem resilience at the heart of viticulture. Organic farming was only the first step  Transitioning to organic farming in 2007 marked an important […]

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March 14, 2023

the choice of new grape varieties

Winter is the ideal time for planting new vineyards. «What and how to plant ?» is the question that the winemaker asks. The answer depends on what is anticipated in terms of climate and market trends. This is a complex exercise because a vineyard is established for the next 30 years or more, while climate […]

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January 20, 2023

The 2022 Vintage – Earliest start Ever !

The year 2022, with its early start for plants, skimpy amounts of rainfall and long period of hot weather, was a reflection of recent years and probably of those to come. The climatic conditions were trying for all living things (plants as well as animals, including us)! Thankfully, once again, the vines proved their resilience […]

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August 29, 2022

Do grape vines need irrigation ?

In this current context of drought, the debate has come front and center in many parts of our planet. Opinions, often formulated with absolute certainties, are often linked to past weather patterns and whether or not there is enough access to fresh water for irrigation. In our Mediterranean climate, the grape vine is one of […]

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