The domain's short story
The Château Saint-Jean-Lez-Durance has been owned by the d'Herbès family since 1754, on the stony land so dear to poets and writers such as Magnan, Herman Hesse, Diesbach or Jean Giono, who readily admitted to a "weakness" for the wines of the estate, the oldest in the region. This property owes its creation to an ancestor of the family who took on the crazy challenge of domesticating the Durance River, known at the time to be untamable because of its violent floods. He built dikes around the property. It was only later, in 1880, that Henri d'Herbès decided to convert the farm into a vineyard. Then his grandson, Jean d'Herbès, driven by the desire to promote the quality of the Haute-Provence terroir, worked to create the Pierrevert appellation and to develop the family estate. Today, it is Jean-Guillaume and Constance, surrounded by their three children, who use their know-how to produce generous, fresh and fruity wines. It is indeed after having given up their Parisian life that the family came back to settle on the family lands of Haute-Provence, and works with energy and passion to offer you a varied range of rosé, red and white wines, regularly rewarded in national and international competitions. Moreover, concerned about the evolution of their land and heritage, they have decided to switch to organic farming.
