Château Romanin

Château Romanin is a winery located in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, at the foot of the ruins of a 13th-century castle of the Templar order, on the northern slope of the Alpilles. The estate covers 250 hectares, including 58 hectares of vines, 4 hectares of olive trees and 2.5 hectares of almond trees. Its output is 50% red wines, 35% rosés and 15% whites, and it belongs to the AOP Les Baux-de-Provence, described as a 100% organic appellation. In March 2024, Dr. Carolyn Sheetz, of Canadian origin and a former maxillofacial surgeon, took over the estate, accompanied by her husband Stan Sheetz.

The estate's own history page recounts that in 350 BC, during the time of the Greeks, Romanin was a place of worship dedicated to the goddess Artemis, and in the Gaulish era it was a druidic site where the cult of the ancient mother goddess Ana, later Saint Anne, was celebrated; at that time the vineyards of Romanin already produced a famous wine exported under the name 'vin de Théopolis.' Legend relates that the Roman patrician Claudius Pastumus Dardanus received the Romanin estate through marriage and, as the last prefect of the Gauls, worked its vines and distributed the wine in the great Roman cities, building the first fort of Romanin for protection. In 1203, the Lord of Romanin, Raymond de Gantelme, entered the Order of the Temple and travelled to the Holy Land, from where he brought back three chests and the veil of Saint Anne, kept at the Cathedral of Apt. On his return from the Crusade, Raymond de Gantelme undertook the construction of Château Romanin on the ruins of the fort with the work of the Pont, a brotherhood of builders associated with the Order of the Temple; the construction took into account the passage of the summer and winter solstices, the Great Bear, the Little Bear, the planets Mars, Venus and Jupiter, the passage of the Sun and the full moon. In the 19th century, the owners of the time had a sugar factory built a short distance from the castle.

• Château Romanin - Grand Vin Rouge 2020 AOP Les Baux-de-Provence

• Romanin Rouge 2024 IGP Alpilles

• La Chapelle 2023 AOP Les Baux-de-Provence

• La Chapelle 2021 AOP Les Baux de Provence

• Chateau Romanin Grand Vin Rouge 2019 AOP Les Baux de Provence

• Le Coeur 2019 AOP Les Baux de Provence

• Romanin Rosé 2025 IGP Les Alpilles

• Grand Vin Rosé 2025 AOP Les Baux-de-Provence

• Romanin Blanc 2025 IGP Alpilles

• Grand Vin Blanc 2023 AOP Les Baux de Provence

1. 1Château Romanin - Domaine viticole à Saint-Rémy-de-Provencechateauromanin.com
2. 2L'histoire du domaine viticole Château Romaninchateauromanin.com
3. 3Château Romaninwikidata.org