They are around 60 winegrowers working at the cooperative. The vineyard is cultivated with family since many generations.

Hand picking all our grapes is the key to our quality.

Once harvested, the grapes are carried in small crates, and mechanically raised above the tanks. They are then moved by gravity to the fermentation vat to undergo carbonic maceration. Using this process, the grapes are not damaged or crushed from the field to the tank. They remain intact up until inside the vat, rendering the best of their fruit.
Castelmaure has always worked with the environment, harvest is 100 % handpicked. We already have the High Environmental Value certification for half of the vineyard, reducing treatments in the vineyards to a minimum. Also, nearly a third of the vineyard is on its way to being organic.

Encircled with stones and rocks, Embres-et-Castelmaure nestles deep in the Corbières, between scrubland and maquis. There are two roads leading to the village, on the border of France and the ancient country of Aragon, at the feet of the Pyrenees mountains.

And the other side of the mountain range lies the Mediterranean Sea.

In the middle of vineyards one finds the ruins of a castle which has given us our name, Castelmaure. And following the path lined with the wise Montpellier Maple trees we come to the romane chapel, St Felix, surrounded by pointed cypres and green oaks.

Hand picking all our grapes is the key to our quality. Once harvested, the grapes are carried in small crates, and mechanically raised above the tanks. They are then moved by gravity to the fermentation vat to undergo carbonic maceration. Using this process, the grapes are not damaged or crushed from the field to the tank. They remain intact up until inside the vat, rendering the best of their fruit.

Castelmaure has always worked with the environment, harvest is 100 % handpicked.  We already have the High Environmental Value certification for half of the vineyard, reducing treatments in the vineyards to a minimum. Also, nearly a third of the vineyard is on its way to being organic.

In 1985, Castelmaure signed a commercial partnership with maison Jeanjean. A famous winegrower and distributor from the south of France. The winery is vinifying a specific range of wine exclusively distributed by Jeanjean to supermarkets and export.

You will find in this portfolio, very fruity wines like the Castelmaure red and rosé, in bottle or in Bag in Box, original wines like “les deux crêtes” but also serious wines aged in oak or wooden vat like les Hauts de Castelmaure or l’Extrême.

Vintage 2020

To be honest, 2020 was not an easy vintage, hard for our winegrowers. Winter was very warm, the vines started to shoot early. Then the spring was wet, with an unusual amount of rain for this region. Growers had to keep an eye out closely for the vine enemy: the mildew. Summer was warm, a bit too hot in the beginning of august for some of our vineyards, the vines were scorched. Then the weather improved and was fine up until October.
The harvest started with warm and sunny days; a slight rain helped us to finish the harvest under good conditions.
We ended up with a small vintage, less juice, but of a very good concentration and perfectly balanced. A difficult but beautiful vintage!