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The olive groves
It is customary for farmers to name their plots.
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We were raised with these singsong names which are often strange and hard to spell, such as "Les Grands Drailles", "Joncades Hautes" and "Joncades Basses", for Jean-Benoît's apple trees; and "Galéant", "Rose" and "Les Pétarelles" for the vines at Catherine's Vieux Télégraphe.
The name often comes from the lieu-dit (literally "place called", or locale) such as Castelas, but also from the person you bought it from - as with Roméro, a gentleman of whom we are very fond.
We have followed tradition and named our various groves thus: Castelas, Roméro, Dominé, Mas de Flore, Jaubert, Plaines de Geymon, Beaumettes Hautes, Beaumettes Basses, Romanin, and Les Baux.
We will only describe the main ones here.