Discover the long and fascinating history of the abandoned Chateau that lay derelict on our land for a generation, and how it’s ruins were used to build a Neoclassical Regency style Mansion in 1851, that we are renovating today.
Designed to be a viticole, or Wine and Cognac producing estate, it’s fortunes have been up and down, including surviving the infamous phylloxera epidemic of 1870, that destroyed almost all the vines in the region.
We also look at the life of one of the Chateau’s most prominent previous owners, Marc René, the Marquis de Montalembert, Lord of Vaux, who founded a canon factory in Ruelle, which is still celebrated by the re-enactment of the ‘route of the barrels and the cannons’ as make their way to the Royal Arsenals at Rochefort and beyond.