François COLLARD : The Story of a passion

 

 

A winding road meandering alongside the slopes of the “Costières” leads you to the CHATEAU MOURGUES DU GRES, in the midst of orchards and garrigue.

 

 This former estate belonged to the Convent of the Ursulines of Beaucaire before the French Revolution - from where the "Mourgues" éponyme (nuns in Provencal - "Grès" meaning "pebbles").

 

 In the court, there is the sundial with the motto "SINE SOLE NIHIL" (Nothing Without Sun), this sunshine permitting to get optimal maturities for a balanced wine.

 

 

 Agricultural Engineer and Oenologist, I made my début at Château-Laffite in the Médoc.

 

 In 1990 I decide to come back on the family estate to enhance the diversity of the soil making the most of the wealth of the plantings.

 

 A precise work in the vineyard associated to a taste of the innovation will succeed on the first red wine bottling with the 1993 vintage.

 

 Then the palette of wines will be quickly completed by a gastronomy rosé, preceding a fashion well established today.

 

 In 1999 I bottled my first white vintage.

 

 My wife Anne leaves the Urbanism to assist me in the adventure in 1995; the marketing of wines had to be created...

 

 The quality, the originality of wines and the regularity of the vintages are regularly recognized by the national and foreign press.

 

 This stimulating gratitude encourages me to raise the challenge of wines of soil, passion and pleasures every year!

 

 François Collard

François COLLARD : the story of a passion