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CREATION DATE : Upon the installation of Rémi LARROQUE, succeeding his father, Robert Larroque, in 1988 who, himself, succeeded his own ancestors, a long line of winemakers first established in 1540. It was in 1814 that Jean Pierre Larroque left the small hamlet of “Larroque”, a community in Broze and came to settle in Oustry, with his wife. He built his wine cask cellar, made the wine on-site and then sold his barrelled wine in Paris.
Since then, a long line of wine-makers was established, handed down from father to son, all harvesterwinemakers, producing their own wines, growing their own white and red grapes to develop bottled sparkling wines since 1899, under the “Gaillac”, Coteaux d’Oustry vintage, and red vintage labels. The other wines were then marketed in bulk and in bottles from 1970. I was in 1938 that Gaillac obtained the”Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée”(Controlled Designation of Origin) for white wines and then, in
1970, for red and rosé wines.
The MAS DES COMBES facility belongs to Rémi LARROQUE, his wife, Nathalie and their two sons, Robin and Théo, born in 1998 and 2000. When he was placed in control, in 1988, he only had an 18 ha vineyard, in association with his father. The retirement and death of two neighbours facilitated the 360°expansion of his fields around Mas d’Oustry so that, today, Rémi owns 34 ha.
The soil is clay and limestone and most of our vines face south-southeast in the case of the reds and north-northeast for the whites.