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- The vine walls are still present in Thomery and have been classified in 1993 by the Monuments historiques.
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The Chemin des Longs Sillons is a group of high walls specific to the commune of Thomery in the Seine-et-Marne region, built in the first third of the 18th century to grow table grapes of a local variety known as “Chasselas de Thomery”.
Oct 19, 2006 · Thomery Vines on Walls. A view on a few vineyard-walls of Thomery (pictured last winter). You can see 3 leaf-less vines on this wall. This story is about vines trained against walls, and Chasselas table grape. One of things people rarely know is that the Paris region was the #1 wine region in France before the Phylloxera era.
Nov 29, 2021 · Today in Thomery the houses are built between walls, some of which retain their grapevines for personal consumption and close to the town centre you can still find a few greenhouses from the 19th century which allowed for year-round production.
The peak of production was in the 1920s with more than 800 tons of grapes a year cultured over a total 350 km (220 mi) of walls. The vine walls are still present in Thomery and have been classified in 1993 by the Monuments historiques.
Thomery's walls. The main distinctive feature of Chasselas cultivation in Thomery, a relatively northerly region for vines, is the use of high espalier walls built from hard stone quarried nearby, held together with earth mortar, and plastered with sand and lime. [8]
Part of the town of Thomery today, seen through Google maps. The old fruit walls are still dominating the landscape. The houses were built later. Some cultivators in Thomery also constructed “counter-espaliers”, which were lesser walls opposite the principal fruit walls.
Don’t leave Thomery without strolling down the Chemin des Longs Sillons to admire the vine-covered walls. Now protected historical monuments, the first walls devoted to growing the Chasselas grape date back to the 16th century.
