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Our Historic Wine Collections

Notes

collections:

vineyards - description, intro, pic, link to the vineyard site, later on add intermediate page w/ more detail including vineyard activities, perhaps anne tonnelson to organize tours to vineyards based on these collections

wines - description, critique price picture (w/ cross link to all critiques

Sacred Traditions:

Monastic Wines It comes to no surprise the monks naturally used preexisting ancient greek and roman vineyards as they established monasteries more than 800 years ago. Wine was needed for mass and the intense physical activity needed for vine growing fit perfectly with their life style and with their spiritual commitment to improving themselves and the fruit of their labor. Cistercian monks achieved a great level of competence in their pursuit of perfection and became quite famous for their expertise in all aspects of wine making.

link to the collection, the page which will have the list of wines, the critiques, pics, etc
The collection comes from these vineyards:

Abbaye Sainte Eugénie
Domaine de l'Abbaye du Petit Quincy
Monastère Senhora do Convento
Chartreuse de Valbonne
Abbaye de Valmagne
Abbaye de Fontfroide (have CD) http://www.fontfroide.com/
Abbaye de Monges (have CD) http://www.abbaye-des-monges.com
Saint-Hilaire http://www.ciao.fr/Blanquette_de_limoux_methode_ancestrale__1916

Medieval Knights Wines

Chivaleric orders such as the Knights Templars were organizations of warrior monks who were dominated medieval Europe. They gave Europe its banking system; they brought back knowledge of technologies such as irrigation they observed the Arab nations. They developed a force who were stronger than the Kings and ultimately were destroyed.

Mas Deu: Mas Déu was established as a Knight Templar Commanderie in 1137 on the site of a former roman villa. Thomas Jefferson also discovered these wonderful wines. In a letter to James Monroe he wrote that the wines from the Mas Deu vineyard were the best of the Roussillon wines. And now, six generations of wines are still being produced the Claude Oliver family, now featuring organic wines.

Thomas Jefferson's Favorites

Supreme Collection: description coming soon
Off-the-beaten-path: Description coming soon

Mas Deu

Wines of the Kings

Description coming

Domaine de l'Abbaye du Petit Quincy
Vin du Tsar http://vin-du-tsar.tm.fr/
Mas Deu

Lineage

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