Vignobles Famille Quiot

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In 1793, Jean-Baptiste bought the Tour de Lhers, an old tower on the banks of the Rhone, a property that was confiscated from a noble French family (Rohan-Soubise). It was a vast estate of 100 hectares. Here he built a house, where his descendants still live, and used the stones from the old château. He married the daughter of a landowner who was guillotined during the French Revolution. He was later mayor of Châteauneuf in 1815 and 1835.
The wines on our estate were sold in bottles or barrels, at the time, to a clientele of wine lovers. The Vicomtesse de Castellane, the mother-in-law of Fouché, Napoleon’s Police Minister, was one of them.
Jean-Baptiste's son, Jean, married the descendent of an old family of winemakers, the owners of the Vieux Lazaret (a former hospital that was used to quarantine and take care of the sick during the major epidemics of the 17th and 18th century) and he came to live in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where he was mayor between 1852 and 1860.
He set up the headquarters of the estate in the Vieux Lazaret and slowly expanded it by marriage and purchases. In 1873, the local wood was bought to satisfy the family’s passion for hunting (Combes d'Arnevels).
In 1875 all the vineyards were destroyed by phylloxera, a small insect that devoured the roots of the vines, which died as a result. Our family was ruined and began to manage quarries, produce silk and work in agriculture (wheat and cereals). The vineyards were mainly replanted with Grenache grapes. The 1914-1918 War, the economic crisis of 1929 and the Second World War were not favourable conditions for expanding or developing the estate.
In 1980, Geneviève and Jérôme Quiot decided to relaunch the sale of our wine.