{"id":128425,"date":"2023-02-24T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/archives\/128425"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:36:33","slug":"chateau-les-crostes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/2023\/02\/24\/chateau-les-crostes\/","title":{"rendered":"The prestigious wines of the Ch\u00e2teau Les Crostes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

His Royal Highness Prince F\u00e9lix of Luxembourg presented the latest wines from Ch\u00e2teau Les Crostes, his Provencal estate, at Tero House 17 in Luxembourg on Thursday the 23rd of February. Since 2013, with his wife, Princess Claire, they have been developing this ch\u00e2teau and its 55ha of vines. The wines, white, red, and especially ros\u00e9, from this estate located in Lorgues, are distributed in the Grand Duchy by Bernard Massard<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Do you consider yourself a winemaker?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

HRH Prince F\u00e9lix: <\/strong>Today, if anyone asks me “what is your job?”, yes, I am a winegrower. It was only natural for me when we inherited the castle from my wife’s father. I’m an entrepreneur by nature and I think you have to take care of what you have. It’s such a joy to own such a beautiful estate! For the past seven and a half years, I have been working towards becoming a winemaker, especially with the help of our oenologist Ted Garin, who has taught me a lot, including a lot of technical knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has been the hardest part of this learning process? What is your vision for the future of the estate?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

HRH Prince Felix: <\/strong>Hard to say, I don’t know, but the biology, the physics, the reactions of the vine… it’s all so exciting that I didn’t consider it difficult.
And it’s important to have new ideas. Of course, we are thinking about organic, but it is very complicated to set up, it will take time, we are studying the question. We mustn’t forget that there are about twenty people in charge of the ch\u00e2teau and the vines and for that we can’t make any mistakes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it complicated to produce a good ros\u00e9? What is your definition of a “good ros\u00e9”?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

HRH Prince F\u00e9lix: <\/strong>Unlike white or red wine, which fluctuate with the vintage, ros\u00e9 is not a wine for which we expect many variations. We have to make the same ros\u00e9 every year, so it is very important to be meticulous in the blending, there are many different codes to respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good ros\u00e9 is a balanced wine, with flavours, easy to drink, light, dry and fruity. It’s a wine that should give you “a buzz”, a wine that you want to share. Once the bottle is finished, you want to open another one. I think that today I produce what is my favourite ros\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antoine Clasen (Director of Bernard Massard) & Prince F\u00e9lix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bibi Wintersdorf & Prince F\u00e9lix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More information: www.chateau-les-crostes.com<\/a>
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His Royal Highness Prince F\u00e9lix of Luxembourg presented the latest wines from Ch\u00e2teau Les Crostes, his Provencal estate, at Tero House 17 in Luxembourg on Thursday the 23rd of February. Since 2013, with his wife, Princess Claire, they have been developing this ch\u00e2teau and its 55ha of vines. The wines, white, red, and especially ros\u00e9, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":96601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4540],"tags":[4009],"class_list":{"0":"post-128425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-product-news","8":"tag-food-news","9":"pmpro-has-access"},"featured_media_global":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanguards.eu\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}