Beaucastel, symbol of timeless elegance, now for the first time since its recent complete renovation, provides the setting for an award-winning drama series. Season 2 of Drops of God, the Franco-Japanese series acclaimed for its refinement and its stylish homage to wine culture, will see its intrigue play out at Beaucastel from January 21 on Apple TV+.
This new season, rich in emotion, sensuality, and plot twists, takes the viewer on a quest to discover the origins of the finest wine on earth. Featuring Fleur Geffrier (Camille) and Tomohisa Yamashita (Issei), Drops of God Season 2 once again takes lovers of beauty and wine to the heights of sophistication.
An iconic location: the brand-new Beaucastel
For the first time, cameras will reveal the interior of the newly refurbished Beaucastel, recently hailed by Architectural Digest as “Champion of Sustainable Design”. This Famille Perrin estate certainly offers an incomparable filming location, a setting of rare aesthetic power where contemporary architecture engages in a harmonious dialogue with the centuries-old heritage of the great wines of the Southern Rhône.
Lauded in the press worldwide — “Avant-garde and staggeringly beautiful” (Le Figaro), “Virtuous architecture” (IDEAT), “A spectacular renovation” (Le Monde), “A new era in viticultural architecture” (The Drinks Business) — Beaucastel stands proud as an unequivocal architectural and environmental statement.
This vision, which is built around innovation, includes a major environmental installation: two huge underground rainwater reservoirs with a capacity of 1,800 m³ that form part of an ingenious natural air-conditioning system in which the air, cooled by the earth and loaded with humidity, regulates the temperature of the wine cellar without consuming any fossil fuels. This pioneering approach is a continuation of the Famille Perrin philosophy which began in the 1950s with organic farming, followed by the adoption of biodynamics in 1974, and which has now been extended to embrace agroforestry, with vines and trees flourishing in perfect harmony.
When the art of wine-making meets the art of film-making
With Drops of God Season 2, a modern cinematographic oeuvre on transmission, sensitivity, and authenticity of taste, Beaucastel will enter the imagination of millions of viewers around the world. Much more than a simple backdrop, it will bear witness to a philosophy — that of a wine born of the earth, of time and of the vision of men and women.
