Domain
Founded by Roger Marès in the 1960s, Mas des Bressades is located in the Costières de Nîmes, south of the Rhône Valley. It stretches across 45 hectares north of the Camargue, where the vines are planted at 70 metres altitude, on pebbles rolled by the Rhône.
Bressades comes from the Provençal dialect and means to rock, because one is very often rocked, even buffeted by the Mistral.
While the estate had long been cultivated with respect for nature and the soils, in 2017 Cyril Marès applied for organic farming certification. After three years of conversion, this certification is now official.
Bressades comes from the Provençal dialect and means to rock, because one is very often rocked, even buffeted by the Mistral.
While the estate had long been cultivated with respect for nature and the soils, in 2017 Cyril Marès applied for organic farming certification. After three years of conversion, this certification is now official.
The Winemaker
Cyril always lived among the vineyards and orchards of his father Roger Marès. After studying agronomy, viticulture and oenology in Montpellier, he went to make wine on other continents before taking over the estate.
First in the USA at Chalone Vineyard in 1994, then in Chile with Bruno Prats, owner of Château Cos d'Estournel, and Paul Pontallier, manager of Château Margaux. These two harvests were the occasion for a trip around the world full of adventures, encounters and discoveries. Cyril returned to the Costières de Nîmes at Mas des Bressades in 1996.
Driven by his passion for wine and for the terroir of Mas des Bressades, his goal is to preserve the quality potential of the terroir with the greatest respect for the vines and soils. "In each wine, I seek harmony between the different origins and components of the wine, so that everyone who drinks it feels the pleasure I had in making it."
First in the USA at Chalone Vineyard in 1994, then in Chile with Bruno Prats, owner of Château Cos d'Estournel, and Paul Pontallier, manager of Château Margaux. These two harvests were the occasion for a trip around the world full of adventures, encounters and discoveries. Cyril returned to the Costières de Nîmes at Mas des Bressades in 1996.
Driven by his passion for wine and for the terroir of Mas des Bressades, his goal is to preserve the quality potential of the terroir with the greatest respect for the vines and soils. "In each wine, I seek harmony between the different origins and components of the wine, so that everyone who drinks it feels the pleasure I had in making it."
Cyril Marès
A passion spanning more than seven generations
For centuries, making wine in the Marès family has been as much an art as a family tradition.
Cyril carries on the legacy at the estate created by Roger Marès in 1964, who had also established a vineyard in the Haut-Médoc with his father Henri (1903-1994). As a pioneer, he applied the good Gironde lessons in the Costières.
This tradition was brilliantly illustrated by Henri Marès (1820–1901), a friend of Pasteur and discoverer of the sulphur treatment for powdery mildew, a scourge of the vines, and his brother Paul, a distinguished botanist who settled in Algeria where he could not resist establishing a vineyard. Their father, Etienne Marès (1780–1840), had left the family estate managed by his father Pierre Marès (1758–1820) on the shores of the Étang de Thau to become a wine merchant and later acquire the Château de Launac near Montpellier.
Cyril carries on the legacy at the estate created by Roger Marès in 1964, who had also established a vineyard in the Haut-Médoc with his father Henri (1903-1994). As a pioneer, he applied the good Gironde lessons in the Costières.
This tradition was brilliantly illustrated by Henri Marès (1820–1901), a friend of Pasteur and discoverer of the sulphur treatment for powdery mildew, a scourge of the vines, and his brother Paul, a distinguished botanist who settled in Algeria where he could not resist establishing a vineyard. Their father, Etienne Marès (1780–1840), had left the family estate managed by his father Pierre Marès (1758–1820) on the shores of the Étang de Thau to become a wine merchant and later acquire the Château de Launac near Montpellier.
