Château d’Astros

Astros traces its estate story to a Templar farm established on the Argens plain in the thirteenth century, later carried on by the Knights of Malta. A first cellar followed in 1637, while the nineteenth century brought Maximin Martin’s 1802 purchase and the Tuscan-inspired château completed by his grandson in 1860. The property remains with the Maurel family, with Bruno Maurel managing the domaine alongside his nephews and nieces.

From 1963, Bernard Maurel renewed the vineyard and built a modern cellar, as the estate increasingly turned from red wine toward rosé. In 2021 the vineyard began a transition to organic farming, with soil life and biodiversity among the family’s guiding priorities.