{"id":3481,"date":"2020-08-03T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2022-03-07T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T16:11:49","slug":"browns-orchard-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/browns-orchard-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown\u2019s orchard is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may only know \u2018<strong>Pommeraie de Brown\u2019<\/strong> as the name of one of our second wines, but once upon a time Ch\u00e2teau Brown was also renowned for the quality of its apples.<br \/>\nIn fact, a hectare-sized apple orchard (\u2018pommeraie\u2019 in French) stood alongside the vineyard for several decades. These apple trees were uprooted in 1994, giving way to the beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon vines that were planted in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>But we have decided to bring the orchard back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In early January 2020,\u00a0<strong>36<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>fruit<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>trees<\/strong>\u00a0(apple, cherry, pear and plum) were planted on the western side of the vineyard, next to the apiary. This forms part of our project to plant trees and hedges. This action, among others, is helping to preserve and improve biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>The trees do not undergo any treatments, and the fruit is not intended to be harvested. The trees are havens of biodiversity, attracting bees, insects and birds, but are also fantastic carbon sinks.\u2019-\u00a0<\/em>Jean-Christophe Mau<\/p>\n<p>But planting trees is not always straightforward! As the soil in this part of the estate is very sandy, many of the trees did not grow well. Two years later, we decided on a new spot: in\u00a0January 2022, the trees were transplanted to another part of the estate near to the floral farm, with cooler clay soils.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3482 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/VERGER-PLANTATION-JANVIER-2020-768x1024-1-382x509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/VERGER-PLANTATION-JANVIER-2020-768x1024-1-382x509.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/VERGER-PLANTATION-JANVIER-2020-768x1024-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may only know \u2018Pommeraie de Brown\u2019 as the name of one of our second wines, but once upon a time Ch\u00e2teau Brown was also renowned for the quality of its apples. In fact, a hectare-sized apple orchard (\u2018pommeraie\u2019 in French) stood alongside the vineyard for several decades. These apple trees were uprooted in 1994, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6039,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions\/6039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chateau-brown.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}