Guided tour around the chasselas

Name: Guided tour around the chasselas
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardins Salomon

Lasting about 1h30, this visit will allow you to have an overview and understand the originality of the production of the chasselas of Thomery and its international reputation.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free - Reservation recommended

Registration

Mairie de Thomery

Lasting about 1h30, this visit will allow you to have an overview and understand the originality of the production of Thomery chasselas and its international reputation.
Go to the Salomon Gardens (located in Place Greffulhe) where vine walls are still made of grapes, as did the old winemakers.
Then, direction the path of the Long Furrows (registered with the Historical Monuments) to discover the network of walls which makes the particularity of the town, before entering one of the last fruit trees of Thomery (opened exeptionnellement) where fresh white gold was kept.
Visit by volunteers of the Confrérie Saint-Vincent. 20 people/group
Please arrive 10 minutes before the start of the tour.

About the location

Jardins Salomon

Place Greffülhe 77810 Thomery

Seine-et-Marne
Île-de-France

These gardens were named after one of Thomery’s largest grape growers in the 19th century: Salomon et fils. They are now home to greenhouses, in line with those Étienne Salomon had built. These greenhouses were not the usual mode of production. You had to be a large operation to be able to own them. For Salomon, it was a question of forcing nature, so they were first forcing greenhouses (i.e. heated greenhouses allowing to produce table grapes out of season). After the abandonment of forced cultivation, experimental greenhouses for delicate varieties. It is not possible to have two harvests produced in the vineyard during the year.