Our vineyard is a unique site at the gates of the the Gorges de l’Ardèche Nature Reserve ;
an unspoiled land of natural beauty …

Our vineyards are cultivated in full respect of the environment and biodiversity: traditional tilling, organic treatments, ridging the vines with draft horses…

Parcels are bordered by woods and bocages, veritable havens for wildlife and the countless birds who are natural predators that control vine pests.

Our terroir comprises slopes with pebbly soils and chalky clayey soils that stretch for two kilometres along the Ardèche river. We cultivate the grape varieties that make the great wines of our regional tradition: Syrah, Cinsault, Grenache, Carignan, Merlot and Viognier for the white wines.

Our vineyards lie in the IGP Ardèche (Protected Geographical Indication) zone. Certain grapevines, planted by previous generations over 50 years ago, grow grapes that are few in number but outstanding in quality, producing complex wines with great finesse.

The grapes are harvested when they have reached optimum maturity, and they go directly into the estate cellar.

For our red wines, we do long macerations at controlled temperature to extract the tannins, the colour, the delicate aromas. The wines then spend a year in concrete vats; some undergo a further twelve months in oak barrels.

Our white wine is made in the highly traditional manner. The grapes are harvested very early in the morning to retain all their freshness, then brought to the press. After short maceration in contact with the skins, the juice goes into oak barrels for slow fermentation on the lees. This technique endows the wine with velvety texture and gorgeous aromas that evoke honey and almond paste.

Throughout the vinification period we taste and analyse the wine to closely monitor its evolution. Our red wines are not filtered, and only rarely are they fined, so as to preserve – and give you – all the aromatic complexity we have worked so hard to achieve.