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Chateau de Monbazillac by E.L. Malvaney

Chateau de Monbazillac. From the tour brochure: "Built around 1550, Chateau Monbazillac stands today almost exactly as it was when built by the Aydie family more than four centuries ago. It has come unscathed through the Wars of Religion, the revolt of the Perigord peasants ("Les Jacqueries du Perigord"), the French Revolution and the architectural eccentricities of the 19th century. This Protestant stronghold is today listed as an Historic Monument and classified as one of the "Hundred Sites of Remarkable Taste" in France. Its architecture is an harmonious combination of the defensive style of the Middle Ages (towers, circular walk, battlements, arrow-slits, dry moats) and the first signs of Renaissance art (the aligining of large apertures, mullion and transom windows, complicated frameworks, interior superimposed staircases, layout of rooms, sleeping bridge . . .). Inhabited by Protestant noblemen, Lords of Bergerac, the Chateau of Monbazillac and its 22 hectares of vines had changed ownership more than ten times prior to being purchased in 1960 by the Cooperative of Monbazillac. The cooperative maintains the chateau with the entry fees paid by visitors. Monbazillac is also the name of a vineyard of world-wide renown. It was first cultivated in the 11th century by the monks of the Priory of Saint-Martin, who then owned the gently sloping hillsides of Monbazillac and first invented this wine-making process. Approximately 3000 hectares of vineyard now benefit from this particular method of vinification which is based on the late and successive harvesting of grapes, grapes being "infected" by a fungus--the BOTRYTIS CINEREA--the origin of the "noble rot." This surmaturation gives the wine of Monbazillac its "Robe de Louis d'Or," its Bouquet de Roti" and its "Nez de Cyrano"!
Château de Nobles is a tourist attraction, one of the Castiellos in La Chapelle, Francia. It is located: 265 km from Lyon, 840 km from Turin, 850 km from Freiburg. Read further
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