L’HISTOIRE Après la destruction des oliviers par le gel de l’hiver 1956, la vigne a remplacé les arbres dans cette région. Valérie Chaume-Arnaud a toujours voulu être viticultrice. Après des études d’œnologie et de viticulture, elle s’installe donc en 1987 au domaine de ses parents qui pratiquent encore la polyculture. Elle [...]

THE STORY Domaine Roche Audran came into being in 1998, when Vincent Rochette built a cellar in a shady corner of the Buisson vineyards, where his family had grown vines for five generations, but had always sold the harvest to the local winegrowers cooperative.The 32 hectares of the estate, with vines varying in age [...]

THE STORY Domaine de Panisse is a unique Provençal farmhouse in the heart of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation. The 15th-century building is surrounded by 6.5 hectares of Châteauneuf-du-Pape vines which form an amphitheater around the estate. A good share of the vineyard is planted in old and high quality vines, including some [...]

THE STORY Clos du Caillou was originally a 17 hectare, walled hunting reserve, which straddled the communes of Courthézon and Châteauneuf-du- Pape. When government experts came to visit the estate in 1936 with a view to including it in the new appellation of Châteauneuf-du- Pape, the owner was absent and the experts [...]