The madder is a plant with red roots that is used as tincture. It will color the pants and the zouaves of Napoleon's guard soldiers in 1914. This essential culture for Vaucluse, will end after the big war.
This culture demands a lot of labour, because it is in springtime when the caterpillars feed themselves with blackberries' leaves.
The olive tree culture has a very important place over the coasts of Jonquerettes.
The First Vine appears. Planted by the great-grandfather Joseph, it is still productive. Both, the vine and the olive tree cultures adapt themselves to the nature of the soil.
The Vine of Table Grapes. After a very cold winter with temperatures that even arrived to the -28°C, the olive trees could not resist. The vine of table grapes appears. The chasselas grape founded in this land its letters of nobility. Le Thor becomes the world capital of commerce of chasselas.
The grandfather Aimé begins to manage the exploitation of the vines.
Classification of the Vines into Côtes-du-Rhône. The first vines in the Côtes-du-Rhône were planted during these years, when the classification of the epoch was established by the committee presided by the Baron Le Roy Boiseaumarié.
Joseph undertakes a restructuring when the vines of table grapes started to get old.
The name of "Domaine du Bois de Saint Jean" has its origins from a place located in the community of Chateauneuf de Gadagne:
"Shouted, recommendations, statute make in Chasteauneuf, in 1399, which are made by the authority of Mr. The VIGUIER. That no person, no matter his/hers condition, does not undertake and give her/himself the freedom to collect wood, neither to make feed not to hunt rabbits, as long as they are in the wood or in a deffens, no matter their condition".
...From Mr. The Baron of Chasteauneuf Called BOIS DE SAINT JEAN
Vincent begins to work. It is the trial year for the vinification. The Domaine du Bois de Saint Jean does not exist yet.
The first cellar, the first vinification a big scale: 200hl will be elaborated. CREATION OF THE DOMAINE DU BOIS DE SAINT JEAN.
Xavier joins his father Joseph and his brother Vincent on the work.
The tasting cellar is constructed. Mado is in charge of the reception and the sell to the privates.
Rise in the production thanks to the purchase of old Vines, a cellar with a capacity of 2500hl is constructed. Purchase of Thermo Regular Conical Vats.
Classification of the Vines into Côtes-du-Rhône Village. The Domaine du Bois de Saint Jean own 20 acres. This is a land composed exclusively by rolled pebbles.
Creation of the society: E.A.R.L. ANGLÈS Vincent et Xavier.
Purchase of Vines in VACQUEYRAS. The domaine bought 2,5 acres of vines classified under this denomination and produced its first bottle in 2004.
22000 hl of wine are produced. 65 000 bottles are selled in France, but also in several countries around the world.
The Domaine du Bois de Saint Jean has the luck to own a diversity of land that allows the various grapes to adapt themselves to the nature of the soils, and to obtain the fifth essence to get wines of character.
On both sides of the hill, the soil is sandy, argil and well adapted to the shiraz grapes, that soil provides to them the power of theirs aromas. On the bottom of the hill, the erosion has sediment the sand making the soil light, filterable, and poor, where the viognier express itself entirely.
Finally, the result is a long table land composed exclusively of rolled pebbles that the specialists named "Terrasses du Villafranchien". It is on this land classified as Côtes-du-Rhône Village that the various grapes as the grenache, the mourvèdre, the shyraz, the carignan and the cinsault give their best.
