Vineyards and landscapes - The Mont Ventoux Piedmont - Caromb, Bédoin

Between Ventoux and Dentelles

Mont Ventoux Piedmont

The Comtat Terraces

The Nesque River Slopes

The Monts de Vaucluse

terroirs &
landscapes

cellars

paths &
hikes

to discover

Following the piedmont road means choosing the royal way – the road followed by the pilgrims during the Middle Ages, the path the botanists followed during the Enlightenment, the road faced by today’s athletes.
This is the magnificent road up a mountain described and painted a thousand times over … the emblematic profile emerging from a sea of vines.

THE MONT VENTOUX PIEDMONT

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VINEYARDS AND LANDSCAPES
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Driving from a sea of vineyards in Caromb to the patchwork fields at the base of Mont Ventoux in Bedoin shows a nice succession of species and cultivated fields.
In addition to the dominant viticulture, you have orchards, cereals, woods and forest.
The Mont Ventoux forest has been replanted to limit the erosion caused by rainwater, erosion which has built up the soils at the base over thousands of years.
The alluvial fan presents a great variety of soils – brown, red and white – which give rise to highly characteristic wines.
At the forest edge, strings of farms and hamlets continue to make their living from working both the woods and the land, as they have for centuries.

Terroir - Grape variety - Tasting