This ground more or less deep marno-limestone is located in a zone frost-susceptible and to the dryness, swept by Mistral and Tramontana, sometimes so violent ones that they limit the height of training.
Vines:
- is out of goblet, stretched to allow the passage of the machine to be gathered the grapes,
- is trained in cord of short Royat.
Cereals:
durum wheat currently, also in organic farming, are there to make an attempt..., for maintenance of the grounds.

The exploitation was reorganized by my father, engineer Agri, after the freezing of 1956 which destroyed vines and olive-trees; the pieces were redrawn to allow current mechanization and the vines were replanted in major part with ameliorative type of vines: merlot, syrah, cabernet-sauvignon, grenache and, of course, carignan.
For a long time, we favour a reasoned culture and, if need be, we do not hesitate to call into question our mode of culture.
Our vines have received
no weeding for more than 15 years,
no artificial fertilisers since 5 to 6 years,
no chemical protection for 2 years (chemistry of synthesis),
while supporting the vegetation, while
limiting to the maximum topping (just this it is necessary to let pass the tractor) and ploughings frequent to hide green manure.

The exploitation is located at the center of a small depression, the Plain of Bannières. It is filled by gravelly limestone colluviums biodetritic of higher Valanginien, with sometimes yellow marl and sandy red marl alternation.
This center, or Dome of Castries, is a principal structure anticlinal of the area, which was worth to it to be explored
# access in 1962 by tanker ESSO-REP to - 4.445 m (Castries 1, BRGM-BSS991-1-1),
# then in 1978 by GDF which had planned to create there an underground storage of gas (project given up because a structure of intense fracturing).
In outcrop, one finds limestones and marno-limestones of the lower Cretaceous.