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by Arnaud Leroy
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The village of Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes (321 inhabitants, 831 ha) is located a few kilometers south of Rousset-les-Vignes. It was named after Pantaléon, the personal doctor of the emperor Maximien, who was beheaded around 303 and is celebrated on 27 July. Pantaléon is not a common surname in France although there are five villages called Saint-Pantaléon.
Wine was already produced in the Middle Ages, and a document dated 1327
mentions that the inhabitants of Saint-Pantaléon paid a wine tithe to
their lord. The village was built around a priory depending on the
monastery of Cluny destroyed in the XIVth century. Until the XVIIIth century, Saint-Pantaleon was a hamlet depending on the municipality of Rousset. The epithet -les Vignes (the Vineyards) was added in 1918 to the name of the municipality.
Today, the vineyard of Saint-Pantaléon has an area of 39 hectares.
Saint-Pantaléon is
one of the villages which were allowed in 1969 to add their name to the
generic, local Côtes-du-Rhône name. All of the production is red and
rose wine. The wine-growers have maintained the tradition of the ban
des vendanges (proclamation of wine harvest). The date of wine h