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May 27, 2025

The promise of regenerative agriculture

Regenerative agriculture represents a transformative shift in thinking. We’re moving away from simply taking from the land to actively restoring it, empowering both plants and farmers with greater self-sufficiency and resilience. On our vineyard, we’ve adapted these principles to our specific soil, climate, and winemaking practices. It all starts underground. When we build up organic […]

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March 20, 2025

Reforesting the Valat de la Crosse

  This winter, we launched a reforestation project upstream of the Valat de la Crosse, a seasonal stream that runs through our Bek terroir in Vauvert, channeling rainwater down to Gallician.  Unfortunately, years of intensive farming have thinned out the vegetation that once stabilized its banks and regulated water flow, leading to erosion and increased […]

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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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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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March 02, 2022

Nutritious Fallow Fields: “Regeneration” not “Dormancy”

Year 1: The choice of our first set of seedings   The return of warmer weather heralds the moment to start sowing our cover crops on land destined to eventually be planted with a new vineyard or orchard. In the life of a farm, it’s important to let land rest between two crops (in our […]

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