Dézaley
Dézaley is (next to Calamin ) one of two appellations with the addition " Grand Cru " in the Swiss wine-growing region Lavaux .
location
Dézaley is mostly located in the municipality of Puidoux in the canton of Vaud , as a steep slope between the villages of Epesses and Rivaz below the Tour de Marsens and the Rocher-de-la-Croix-de-Notre-Dame .
history
In 1141 the then Bishop of Lausanne awarded the western part of the slopes to the Cistercians of Haut-Crêt and the eastern part in 1142 to those of Montheron . The monks reclaimed the land, which they owned until 1536, and grew wine. The Bernese took over the area of Hautcrêt, which from then on was also known as Dézaley d'Oron .
In 1803 the city of Lausanne acquired the estate; since 1912 the 4.2 hectare area has also been known as Clos des Moines . The 3.86 hectare portion of Montheron (also known as Dézaley de la Ville or Clos des Abbayes ) also became the property of Lausanne, along with a Gothic chapel from the 15th century and the country house La Belle du Dézaley , whose The main room was painted by René Auberjonois .
Part of the northern estate, which was cultivated from 1148 by the Premonstratensians of Humilimont , is now privately owned; it once belonged to the St. Michael College from Freiburg .
From the 18th century until 1839, wine terraces were laid out, the vines of which today mainly produce white wine .
See also
literature
- Eric Muller: Puidoux au coeur de Lavaux , Puidoux 1982
- Gilbert Coutaz et al .: Les 450 vendanges des vignobles de la ville de Lausanne . Exhibition catalog 1987, ISBN 2-88075-008-3 (esp. Pp. 85–126)
Web links
- Louis-Daniel Perret: Dézaley. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .