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IIe siècle avant J-C
100,000 years ago, man had already found refuge in La Clape, but it was only with the Romans that his viticultural history began. From the end of the 2nd century BC, the Romans colonized La Clape, seduced by this wooded area which presents climatic conditions similar to those of Italy. At the time, it was still an island, the largest in the Gulf of Narbonne. To reward his troops, Julius Caesar offers it to the best of his men. Very quickly, the wines of La Clape were exported to Toulouse and Bordeaux and throughout the empire.
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XIIe Siècle
from the twelfth century, a period of intense economic development, Narbonne is becoming a major place of international commerce.the razzias raging, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint Jean de Jerusalem decided to build a commandery in 1179 in Saint Pierre la Mer and to establish a high quality vineyard there.
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XVIIe / XIVe Siècle
around 1650, out of twelve boats leaving the port of the city, ten were loaded with wine. in the 17th century, the construction of the canal du midi further accentuated this development. In 1826, the Marquis de Raymond-Lasbordes, grandfather of Count Jehan de Woillemont, acquired the Château de Marmorières. Although the vineyards around Narbonne were later affected by powdery mildew and phylloxera, the fact remains that these two plagues destroyed all of its vines in the 19th century. It will take about fifty years to see the rebirth of the vineyard on the island of La Clape, which, since the fourteenth century, has been connected to the continent under the action of the alluvium of the Aude and the activity of the coastal strip. .
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1942
It was in 1942 that the Marquis de Raymond-Lasbordes bought almost 40 hectares from the neighboring estate, thus enlarging the vineyard by almost a third. We owe the revival of La Clape to the awareness and passion of a few winegrowers, and in particular the Countess of Woillemont. Daughter of the last Marquis de Raymond-Lasbordes, first president of the "la Clape" vintage defense union.
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2005
In 2005, during a visit to the vineyard, Count Jehan de Woillemont fell under the spell of this Commandery and its immeasurable potential. He decided to produce great wines there with deep respect for the environment. In 2011, representing the eighth generation, he was called upon to take over and breathe new life into the vineyards and wines of Château de Marmorières. Large investments are made in the vineyard and in the cellar to equip themselves with the best tools and thus reveal the full potential of the wines of the Woillemont estates.
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since 2013
Since 2013, the Commanderie de Saint Pierre la Garrigue 's wines have been vinified at the Château de Marmorières following the major investments in the cellar. The soul of the Commanderie is finally found, the first red vintage is bottled, it will get the top 100 trophy from Tim Atkin (master of wine)! In 2015, the first white will obtain, as the red, the best score from the Wine Spectator in Languedoc “best to buy”, i.e. 91 points. Each year, our wine are awarded with a 93 points for the Grand Maitre red 2017, selection of the 1000 best stocks of the vineyard carried out only the good years and a 96 points obtained for the vintage 2019.
