The 150-year-old Domaine de Vassal ampelographic collection features 4,200 grape varieties from 57 countries. Currently located near Sète, in southern France’s Languedoc region, this unique, world-class collection of 8,500 accessions* of vine plants is being moved to a safer spot, and the operational phase of the relocation has just begun.
Conserving vine diversity
Built on the coast at Marseillan-Plage, Domaine de Vassal houses the Grapevine Biological Resources Centre (CRB-Vigne), a collection of genetic material like no other. According...
