Vigne de Sarragachies, Historical vineyard in Sarragachies, France.

Vigne de Sarragachies is a 2,000 m² parcel of 600 ungrafted vines in twelve rows on the Ninan hillside, above the Adour valley and facing the Pyrenees. About twenty grape varieties grow mixed together, among them tannat, morrastel, fer Servadou, miousap and camaraou noir. The rows are spaced for ox-cart passage, and a sign at the edge marks the 2012 monument historique inscription.

This vineyard was planted around 150 years ago and survived the phylloxera epidemic thanks to its sandy soil composition. The sandy conditions prevented the pest from destroying the vines, making this site a rare survivor from an earlier era of French viticulture.

The vineyard belongs to the Saint-Mont AOC, but its grapes are too heterogeneous to make a single estate cuvée. The name miousap is the Gascon term for humagne blanche, one of about twenty varieties in the plot. Seven unidentified varieties now carry the owner's name, Pédebernade 1, 2, 3 and so on.

The parcel lies on the Ninan hillside in Sarragachies, next to the Ferme Pédebernade, facing the Pyrenees above the Adour valley. Access is by the farm; the rows are planted in doubles set in squares, so the ground between them is uneven. The vines are not grafted and reach 150 to 200 years old, so keep to the paths and do not touch the stocks.

Seven of the roughly twenty grape varieties on this plot have never been matched to any known variety and now carry the names Pédebernade 1, 2, 3 and so on, after the farming family. The parcel also escaped esca, a wood fungus that attacks modern vines.