Château d'Arton is one of the last few producers of Haut Armagnac. Haut or high, meaning higher ground, is the area where the Armagnac producers were mostly congregated pre-phylloxera, the devastation caused by pest infestation that wiped of the large scale of vines during l 863-1889. Today the producers of Haut Armagnac constituted only 3%…
The Château de Léberon is a stately mansion, listed among the Monuments Historiques. Its construction started in the 13th century, when the ‘Hundred Years‘ War was raging across Gascony. The castle was then a medieval fortress with a building design typical of the Gascon castles of the day: square main body flanked by two round…
