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Walking from the winery toward Hermitage hill:
This is Chapoutier country (although it's Jaboulet with the sign at the top....):
In the following pic, that's la chappelle at the top - memorialized on Jaboulet's Hermitage La Chappelle bottling. The plan did not call for going to the top, but a few of us made the climb anyway. It was too good an opportunity to pass up and we needed to work off some of those lunch calories.
View from the Hermitage hill of Tain l'Hermitage and across the Rhone river - Tournon and St. Joseph hill:
Another view of the two cities:
The last steps up to la chappelle:
I was rewarded with this view from the top:
Translation:
Constructed in the 15th century, the chapel was part of the order of Benedictines of St. Andrew the lesser in Vienne. The legend states that it replaced a Roman temple wherein was build a taurobole or gallo-roman sacrificial altar. In fact, the taurobole of Tain came from Lyon.
In the 17th century, a hermit planted the first vines of what is now a remarkable vineyard to offer wine to pilgrims.
Processions of penitents, barefooted, after the holy Thursday services, went from the village to the chapel.
(thanks to our customer Mike C. for the translation)
Below - roughly: the chapel is built on the site of a Roman temple The first written records of the site are from the year 1000. The hermits ?used the site? from the 16th until the 18th century. The ruin was reconstructed in 1864. Bought by the family Jaboulet in 1919 and restored in 1980. (please feel free to forward corrections)
