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vignoble • 49CHÂTEAU SIMONE,THÉÂTRE DEGRANDS VINS« Je ne suis pas difficile, je mecontente du meilleur ! » SignéSir Winston Churchill, qui confiaun jour que son vin préféré étaitcelui du Château Simone. Belhommage, rendu par tant d’autresencore. Le livre d’or en atteste.Comme l’armoire aux souvenirs,qui renferme des lettres et motsde personnalités, des menusprinciers que les vins du châteauont escortés ou encore cescuvées de 1939 et 1943. Dansune autre pièce, l’album defamille. Une photo émeut René,celle de son père, Jean Rougier,« fondateur » de l’AOC Palette, néeen 1948. « Deux ans auparavant,mon père avait déposé un dossierà l’INAO afin d’obtenir l’appellationcontrôlée Château Simone, quiétait alors l’unique domaineviticole du secteur. L’institut areconnu la spécificité de notreterroir, sa typicité propre. Ainsifurent jetées les bases de la futureAOC Palette. »Château Simone - 13590 MeyreuilTél. +33 (0) 4 42 66 92 58www.chateau-simone.frCHÂTEAU SIMONE, THEATRE OF FINE WINES“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best”, said Sir WinstonChurchill, who once said that his favourite wine was produced by ChâteauSimone. This is just one homage paid among many others. The guestbook is proof of this reputation, as is the cabinet of memories, which holdsletters and notes from celebrities, the princely menus accompanied by thechâteau’s wines, and vintages from 1939 and 1943. The family photo albumis found in another room. One photo is particularly dear to René, one of hisfather, Jean Rougier, “founder” of the Palette AOC, established in 1948. “Myfather had presented an application for the AOC Château Simone to the INAOtwo years before. At the time it was the only vineyard in the area. The Instituterecognised the specificity and unique characteristics of our land, and thefoundations of the future Palette AOC were born.”

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