The Wines

Due to their terroir, Berrie wines naturally express character and depth. Old vintages found in the château’s troglodyte cellars today bear witness to the great aging potential and typicality of the estate’s wines (both whites and reds). The legacy of the predecessor, Jacques Pareuil, is essential to understanding this millennial wine region; “visit the château and you will understand its wines” he would say.

The troglodyte galleries in the counterscarp of the Fortress’s moats provide perfect conditions for wine conservation, aging, and vinification. The thermal insulation (between 12° and 14° degrees Celsius all year round) thus promotes aging conditions as well as gentle fermentations by facilitating temperature control. In the estate’s ancestral cellar, our team works to create fine and living wines that respect the typicality of the place. As a tribute to the long history of the estate, the work in the cellar is oriented to produce vintages that hold up and improve through the years, even decades. It is in coherence with this vision that long aging is favored and interventions with exogenous products are limited.