"The Château du Rouët was once a Templar farm and then a former coaching inn. A few years before the revolution, the Marquis de V fell in love with this Château, he hunted there regularly and decided to plant vines and olive trees there.
  
In 1840, the Château du Rouët was bought by the family that currently owns it. The property is made up of more than 1000 hectares of forest, allowing it to earn income from the sale of maritime pine wood and its cork harvest.
  
In 1927, after a major fire devastated the Estérel from Mandelieu to La Motte. Lucas Savatier decided to protect the forest by clearing firebreak trenches and planting them with vines and peach trees.
  
After 1945, the estate began selling wine and significantly expanded its production in the 1960s.
  
In 1990, Martin Savatier modernized the vineyard and contributed to the birth of the Fréjus appellation. It allowed the Château to make a name for itself in France and abroad.
  
The Cuvée Belle Poule evokes the illustrious ship that linked its name to that of Napoleon Bonaparte. This boat repatriated the ashes of the Emperor from the Island of Saint Helena in 1840. In 1888, Lucien Savatier, who considerably developed the Château du Rouët vineyard, was also director of the Forges et Chantiers de la Seyne sur Mer in the Var. When the "Belle Poule" was entrusted to him to be disarmed, he was careful to preserve two doors of historical character: that of the cabin where the Emperor's ashes were kept. These doors still adorn the chapel of the Château du Rouët...
  
For this white wine, the harvest comes from old vines, the maceration is skin-based with controlled fermentation at low temperature in new barrels.
  
The nose is fruity, complex with aromas of exotic fruits, buttered toast, white flowers.
  
Great finesse in the mouth, fruity, round and slightly woody."