On Right Bank of the Rhone, between hill and river, Ampuis is the capital of prestigious Coast-Roast. This village seems owe its name with Latin " emporium " , borrowed from the Greek and indicating a market or a place of trade.
Indeed, a commercial counter would have been installed at this place, well before the arrival of the Romans. Since the Roman epoch, one cultivates the vine which goes up to the attack of the escarpés slopes. It is possible also that the word vine, of the Greek " ampelos " that is to say also at the origin of the name of the commune. Two thousand years ago already, of the Latin authors such as Pline celebrated this wine known under the name of " wine Viennese ".
Today, nearly 200 hectares of vine enracinent themselves on terraces " chayets " supported by " cheys ". By-Ci by-there, of large retaining walls announce the names in giant letters trader-stockbreeders of the vineyard. Coast-Roast name gathers on two grounds separated by a brook and named the " Fair coast " and the " Brown coast ". It resounds there the legend of the lord of Maugiron, lord of Ampuis, which would have shared the field between his/her two daughters, one fair and the other brown one, thus baptizing these two famous names.
It is at the time of the lord of Maugiron that the castle of Ampuis was the place of a " first gastronomical ". Indeed, it is one beautiful day of 1553 which were been used with guests as mark, the curious one and enormous birds: first turkeys ever been useful in France.