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Chateau d'Esclans Wine
Chateau d’Esclans is located
on an exceptional site, on
elevated land near the Gorges
de Pennafort, twenty
kilometers northwest of the
ancient Roman city of Frejus
on the Mediterranean coast.
The first traces of the
chateau’s site date back to
Gaullist times during which its
location served as a lookout
point to spot intruders coming
by boat into the Gulf of
Frejus.
The chateau’s cellar structure
or foundation (known today
as the oldest in the region)
housed an original Chateau
that was given by the Comte
de Provence to Gérard De
Villeneuve, in 1201. The De
Villeneuves, an illustrious
family from Marseille, would
own Chateau d’Esclans and
the land around it for
centuries to come.
The surrounding land around
Chateau d’Esclans is known
as La Vallee des Esclans (the
valley of the clans). At one
point the entire area was part
of the chateau’s property and
over time was gradually
parceled out.
The current chateau is
inspired by a Tuscan Villa and
was built during the 19th
century. Its first known
proprietors after the
deVilleneuves were two
brothers, Sauver Louis
Ranque and Francois
Alexandre Ranque. In January
of 1875, the Ranque brothers
sold Chateau d’Esclans, then
known as Terre d’Esclans, to
the inventor of the French
Wooden Match, Joseph
Toussaint Caussemille whose
family owned Chateau
d’Esclans until 1955. During
World War II the Chateau was
occupied by the Germans.
Coincidentally, La Motte was
the first village in Provence to
be liberated by the allied
forces.
In 1955 Chateau d’Esclans
was purchased by The
Perraud family who owned it
until 1994. During that year, it
was sold to a Swedish pension
fund which produced nominal
quantities of wine and sold the
bulk of the grapes it produced
to neighboring domains.
In 2006 Sacha Lichine
acquired Chateau d’Esclans
beginning a new and exciting
history for this remarkable
chateau and the 267 hectares
surrounding it. |
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