{"id":52131,"date":"2023-03-10T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T09:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brotte.com\/?page_id=52131"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T14:04:42","slug":"la-vallee-du-rhone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brotte.com\/index.php\/en\/la-vallee-du-rhone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rh\u00f4ne Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Rh\u00f4ne Valley<\/h1><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1677575607172{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 90px !important;}”][vc_column parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”32″ css=”.vc_custom_1671697161283{margin-top: -60px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 100px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: rgba(104,104,104,0.01) !important;*background-color: rgb(104,104,104) !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”64px”]
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History of the wine region<\/h2><\/div>
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Established by the Greeks in the 5th century B.C., the Rh\u00f4ne Valley vineyards are among the oldest in France. The Romans played an important role in their development over several centuries and the navigable Rhone River was the main trade route for the wines.<\/p>\n

Although the collapse of the Roman Empire suddenly curtailed the wine region’s commercial growth, the Papacy revived the Rh\u00f4ne Valley wines\u2019 economic growth from the 14th century onwards.<\/p>\n

Between the 18th and the end of the 19th century, the wine region suffered from a record-breaking frost and the invasion of Phylloxera.<\/p>\n

The turn of the 20th century saw the start of the cooperative movement within the wine industry, which led to the vineyards obtaining AOC status. Baron Leroy, a wine producer in Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape and co-founder of the Institut National des AOC, was instrumental in the creation of the very first AOC, the Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape AOC, in 1936. The following year, he also played an important role in the achievement of AOC status for the C\u00f4tes-du-Rh\u00f4ne. Since then, AOC status and the guarantee of quality have given the region’s wine producers a collective purpose.<\/p>\n

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Geographical location<\/h2><\/div>
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The Rh\u00f4ne Valley stretches along both banks of the Rh\u00f4ne for about 200 km from Vienne to Avignon. It encompasses six departments, Rh\u00f4ne, Loire, Ard\u00e8che, Dr\u00f4me, Vaucluse and Gard, and is divided into two distinct parts: the northern area, from Vienne to Valence, and the southern area, from Mont\u00e9limar to Avignon.<\/p>\n

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