A village winegrowing estate with storehouses and 46 hectares of grounds, including 20 hectares of vineyards, nestled in France's Hérault department -
A village winegrowing estate with storehouses and 46 hectares of grounds, including 20 hectares of vineyards, nestled in France's Hérault department.
The winegrowing estate lies in the foothills of the mountains around the River Orb valley. It is nestled in a village in the west of France's Hérault department in the country's Occitania region. This rural village, which only has around 350 inhabitants, is part of the surrounding area of influence of Béziers, a city 30 minutes away. The environment has a Mediterranean climate and is part of the Haut-Languedoc regional nature park, where the area's remarkable natural heritage is protected. You can get to the village from the airports and high-speed train stations of Béziers (30 kilometres away), Montpellier (90 kilometres away), Carcassonne (80 kilometres away) and Toulouse (170 kilometres away). The village is also equidistant from the A9 and A75 motorways that run through Béziers.
The estate covers around 46 hectares, 20 hectares of which are vineyards. It is nestled in the heart of the village. The property includes a series of buildings that form a U shape around a courtyard. There is a house with a 183m² floor area, an annexe, a wine storehouse, an agricultural storage building, a garage and several buildings that stand among the vines and need to be restored. You reach the property via a little bridge across a stream and then through a wrought-iron gate that leads into a rectangular court. The plain main building in the heart of the village has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. Redesigned over successive periods, the house has been recognised as part of a winegrowing estate since 2015 when its current owner bought the place. Behind the house, a double garden covers 290m² and extends alongside the stream. The estate's vineyard and moors are spread over two villages in the immediate surroundings. Many outbuildings, some in ruins, dot the vineyard. Some serve as storehouses or shelters. The vineyard is surrounded by lush scrubland with chestnuts, hazelnuts, strawberry trees and holm oaks. You can see the Caroux mountains to the north in the distance. Small fauna can be found here to, even in the estate's name - an Occitan word meaning a certain little bird with a superb crest and a beautiful song. The current owner has redesigned and modernised the estate. He oversaw some work, such as the creation of the wine storehouse and the partial renovation of the main dwelling, which dates back to the late 19th century. He also overhauled the way the vineyard was run to produce its wines. Biodiversity is a subject that the current owner takes seriously. The winegrowers on the estate work with respect for natural cycles and follow the principles of organic farming.
The winemaker's houseThe house offers a 183m² floor area. It has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. Its facade is plain and east-facing. It has two garage doors, two dormers and an entrance door. Among the facade's six openings along the first floor, two are doors leading out onto a continuous balcony with a wrought-iron balustrade. This balcony takes up a corner of the building and leads to a south-facing door. Six windows along the facade bring natural light into the second floor. Two of these windows are larger than the other ones and they each have a pulley above them that was once used to hoist hay up to the loft. Each window is wooden-framed, single-glazed and fitted with wooden shutters that are painted. The entrance door stands in the middle. Like all the windows, it is set in an ashlar surround. Its keystone is engraved with the year 1900. The tiled gable roof is underlined with a double-row génoise cornice, filled in with rendering like that which coats the facade. The elevations are made of ashlar and rubble stone. The back of the building leads out to the ...
