GLOIRE DE DURAS
Meet Gloire de Duras at the Cool Climate Wine Summit 2025. Free B2B registration here.
Belgium
The Glory of Duras.
Gloire de Duras
Family Nijskens
Galgestraat 126
3803 Wilderen (Sint-Truiden)
Belgium
+32 04 75 83 30 68
info (at) gloirededuras.be
Gloire de Duras
STORY
The Gloire de Duras wine estate is located in Wilderen (Sint-Truiden), in the heart of theHaspengouwregion. I, Peter Nijskens, am a winemaker and full-time fruit grower. The Gloire de Duras wine estate is a truefamily project. My wife Hilde, my three children Laura, Gert-Jan and Isaline and I are trying to make our wine estate a beautiful place.
MEANING OF GLOIRE DE DURAS
The name ‘Gloire de Duras’ hastwo meanings. For the first meaning we have to delve into the past, and more precisely the Middle Ages. At that time the village of Wilderen (near Sint-Truiden), where the wine estate lies, was a ‘glory’ or ‘fiefdom’ of Duras. A glory was an old area of administrative governance, whose inhabitants were under the authority of the lord or liege. The term glory translates to ‘gloire’. The vineyards are in Wilderen and Duras, so we chose the name ‘Gloire de Duras’. The second meaning refers to our ambition to make glorious wines.
Sign up for our newsletter and stay tuned!