TAKE THE MARIS TOUR

KEVIN PARKER

Kevin Parker has financed Chateau Maris for the last fifteen years with the aim of supporting the estate in becoming one of the Languedoc's finest whilst respecting the environment to the highest standards.

As Kevin says, "Individuals all over the world have to understand the dangers and opportunities of climate change and the need to move to a low-carbon based economy. Once they do, governments will have to act and large investment companies will have to respond by focusing on the problem too."

ROBERT ON BIODYNAMICS

Watch the round table discussion on biodynamics:

www.ustream.tv/recorded/25524805

Robert alongside Jean Paul Courtens, President of the Biodynamic Farming Association of America, Eden Frommberg, Nutritionist and anthroposophical medicine specialist and Leslie Lee, Executive Chef at the Steiner School of Manhattan.

AWARD WINNING WINES

Welcome to Château Maris

  • robertProducers of Quality Wines from the Minervois.

    Our vineyard is located between Carcassonne and Beziers in the southern French area that is broadly referred to as the Languedoc-Roussillon. The Languedoc covers a vast area and we are specifically located in the Minervois appellation, where we have found ourselves a very special spot. The vineyard has an enviable mix of quality soil, ideal climatic conditions and great exposition.

    The scrubland that surrounds the vineyard plays an important part too and the biodynamic practises that we use here allow us to fully embrace the vibrant natural ecosystem. Click here to view our Biodynamic Certification.

    The wine we make here is the focus of our day to day efforts but we wholeheartedly believe that, as guardians of this land, we are playing our part in securing the future of the generations to come. We take this responsibility very seriously and it is, in part, why we choose to care for our land following organic and biodynamic principals.

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    We believe that by protecting our soil and ecosystem, the end result will be quality wine that reflects the health and vitality of the vineyard.  Biodynamics is simply a return to the true meaning of terroir.

    "Yet nature is made better by no mean
    But nature makes that mean: so, over that art
    Which they say adds to nature, is an art
    That nature makes. You see sweet maid, we marry
    A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
    And make conceive a bark of baser kind
    By bud of nobler race: this is an art
    Which does mend nature, change it rather, but
    The art itself is nature."

    William Shakespeare, The Winters Tale, Act 4 Scene 4

MINERVOIS LA LIVINIERE

Now a Cru Classé

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We have updated our lables to reflect the new status of Minervois La Livinière as a Cru Classé du Languedoc

BUY OUR WINES

To buy Maris wines, please click here.

DINING OUT IN NYC?

If you are eating out in New York, here's where to dine with a Maris wine

http://www.naturalselectionwines.com
/find-our-wines/

FIND US IN WINE SPECTATOR

At the end of 2012, Wine Spectator published this great article about our hemp winery.

You can read it here.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Almost Perfect
By
John Childress

A novel Robert describes as "a good yarn"

book waldinBiodynamic Wine Guide
By
Monty Waldin


book cookingCooking Without Fuss
By
Jonny Haughton

 


rainforest

The Rainforest Foundation
City Cloisters
196 Old Street,
London EC1V 9FR

 


polar

International Polar Foundation
Rue des Deux Gares / Tweestationsstraat, 120 A
B-1070 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium

 

 
goodall

Institut Jane Goodall France
1 rue du Général Bertrand
75007 Paris

"Nous reversons 90cts par bouteilles vendues à la fondation"