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Château Capitoul

I recently spent a morning at Chateau Capitoul on the Massif de la Clape.   This was my first visit to the estate, and at the suggestion of my friend,  Christine Bertoli who works for the owners, the Bonfils family.   The château itself is pretty eye-catching.  In fact you cannot possibly miss it as you drive towards Gruissan.   It was one of the châteaux pinardiers of the Languedoc, a folly dating back to the end of the 19th century, and apparently inspired by the architecture of the Cité de Carcassonne.     The property now belongs to the Bonfils family, and is one of seventeen properties that they have in the Languedoc, totalling some 1700 hectares, which makes them the largest vineyard owners of the region.     First we went for a walk in the vineyards, with neatly pruned vines in late February.  Altogether there are 80 hectares, in production, most of which are in the immediate vicinity of the château, apart from some Carignan about two kilometres away towards Narbonne, and a pl

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