At the heart of Haute Provence, along the mythical Durance river, not far from the famous Gorges du Verdon and the Luberon moutain range, since 1754, the winery of Château St Jean-lez-Durance extends on 38 hectares of vines registered under the Pierrevert designation and the Haute Provence PGI. This is where, for 8 generations, the d’Herbès family has been cultivating with passion Southern varieties vines, producing on the property fine and characterful wines.

Château St Jean is renowned for its wide range of wines and is rich in several terroirs, hillsides of calcareous clay and sandy-based soil as well as terraces of gravelly or silt soil.

Heirs to a dynasty devoted to the estate and its unique terroir, Jean Guillaume d’Herbès and his wife Constance have both left Paris and their careers - he was working in a large industrial group and she was working in Haute Couture, for the House of John Galliano – to take over the wine business in 2013.

Their aim is to offer fine and elegant wines glorifying this unique terroir of Provence, under the designation of Pierrevert, also known as “the Haute Provence gem”, one of the highest in altitude and benefiting from remarkable temperature variations.

Entrusted with a rare historical heritage, Jean Guillaume and Constance take particular care to preserve fruits of their ancestors’ labour. They have thus decided to grow vines organically (certified in 2016) and within a bioactive approach (use of compost, vines planted with winter cover crops, in accordance with the moon phases).