The accounts of the apostolic chamber reveal valuable information about daily life Palais des Papes. We learn in particular, that during a typical week they consumed more than 100 hectoliters of wine, including 10 in the pope's table.
It is said that wine producers in the Middle Ages was not always excellent and we also know that it does not keep long. The bottlers often improves the drink spice scented many.
Popes, cardinals, dignitaries and guests show were served in their room this spiced wine which the doctor attributed the digestive.
On the occasion of major religious festivals wine flowed freely in the city of the popes. 1600 hectoliters were consumed at the coronation of Clement VI. This wine was tasted at the Palais des Papes, of course, but also in the streets of Avignon, where the fountains of wine flowed for four weeks.
Avignon is the inheritor of a long winemaking tradition.
Since 1308 Clement V had planted vines in Châteauneuf. It was his successor John XXII, which we have the prestigious name "Vin du Pape" which became, much later, the famous name "Chateauneuf du Pape."