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| Rasteau's View |
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| Rasteau |
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| Old Laundry basin |
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| The Jambon and Melon were amazing |
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| Sampling wine with the village |
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| Rasteau Vin |
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| Everyone gather to try the Vin of Rasteau |
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| Everything went out fast |
Old village perched on a hill, it is located halfway between Vaison la Romaine and Orange. A
Romanesque church and ruins of a medieval castle overlooking the
village whose elegant bell tower overlooks the vineyard and the valley
of Ouvèze.
Rasteau has always lived from its agricultural production. First of all, the cultivation of olive trees and then vines. The
great freeze of 1956 that decimated the olive trees throughout the
South of France has greatly accelerated the trend toward virtual
monoculture of the vine that prevails today in Rasteau. The vineyard
with Three Names: "Cotes du Rhone" " Rasteau "and" Natural Sweet Wine
Rasteau ".
From the "Place de l'Apparent", a narrow cobbled sloping street leads to the old village and its chapel Notre Dame des Vignerons dating from the seventeenth and renovated in 1957 / 1961. A little further you will find the old laundry composed of a fountain and two pools, once used by the washerwomen ...
Continue your way towards the "Place de l'Horloge" (the belfry), located under the Portalet gateway opened in 1753 and topped by a tower that houses the clock, which dates from 1635. It was at one time, the main entrance of the village
Pictures by MSW
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