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Rehabilitation of first papal vineyard in France thrills oenophiles

Launched in 2016 in France, Via Caritatis’ grand cru wines — the fruit of an association between wine growers and the monks and nuns of the Abbeys of Le Barroux — are now available in the U.S. This revives winemaking in lands where, almost seven centuries earlier, Pope Clement V planted the first papal vineyard of France. [1]