Côte-Rôtie Condrieu Hermitage Crozes Hermitage Saint Joseph Cornas Saint Peray Châteauneuf du Pape Gigondas Coteaux du Tricastin Côtes du Rhône Villages Côtes du Rhône Tavel Vin de Pays des collines rhodaniennes Vin de Pays des Coteaux de l'Ardèche Côtes du Roussillon Villages Muscat Beaumes de Venise Banyuls Rivesaltes Australie Portugal Luberon Viognier de la Drôme    Vineyards map	Hermitage wines possess a rich historical past. They were appreciated as early on as Roman times when they were enjoyed (as well as Côte Rotie wines) under the name of " Vienne wines "and were later to be called " Saint Christopher's hillside wines " because of a chapel there bearing the saint's name. They were also to be known of as " Tournon wines ". The name of Hermitage probably first appeared in the XVIIth Century in memory of Henry Gaspard, a knight from Stérimberg : who having come back from the Crusades (in the XIIIth Century) and tired of waging war, lived as a hermite on a hillside which had been given to him by Anne of Castille,Queen of Spain. There he planted a vineyard. Alexander Dumas as well as the Tsar Nicholas II are among the many connoisseurs of this particularly highly estimated wine. De l'Orée  L'Ermite  L'Ermite  Le Méal  Le Méal  Le Pavillon  Les Greffieux  Vin de Paille  Chante Alouette  Monier de la Sizeranne	0 article Forget password ?