Faugeres estate at Lentheric, 35 hectares on schist created by Didier Barral in 1993, named after his grandfather and worked biodynamically with integrated livestock (cattle and draught horses) since the start.
Signature wines: Faugères Tradition, Jadis, Valinière
Tip: Jadis (Syrah-Grenache-Carignan) is the cellar bottle and one of the longest-lived Faugeres reds; the Valinieres (Mourvedre-Syrah) is the prestige cuvee from upper-slope schist.
Address: Hameau de Lentheric, 34480 Cabrerolles, France, Languedoc
Vidal-Dumoulin family estate at the hamlet of La Liquiere in Cabrerolles, 60 hectares on the pure schist hillsides of the Faugeres appellation, certified organic.
Tasting: Cellar tour and tasting at La Liquiere by appointment
Signature wines: Cistus Rouge, Nos Racines, Les Amandiers Rouge
Tip: The Cistus rouge is the schist-driven flagship; the Nos Racines old-vine Carignan shows the estate's heritage parcels.
Eleven-hectare hilltop Faugeres estate founded in 2007 by Brigitte Chevalier after a Bordeaux trade career, set on schist bedrock inside the Haut-Languedoc Natural Park with a tasting room and gite among the vines.
Tasting: Cellar tastings at the hilltop winery by appointment; gite accommodation available
Signature wines: Belle Lurette, Felgaria, Les Bancèls
Tip: Felgaria (Mourvedre-led) is the schist flagship; Belle Lurette (old-vine Carignan-Grenache) is the heritage cuvee.
Historic Faugeres estate (formerly Jean-Michel Alquier, an early architect of the appellation), joined and renamed in 2018 by Sophie and Thibaud Bardi de Fourtou, with the schist parcels still at the core of the wines.
Tasting: Cellar tastings at Faugeres by appointment
Signature wines: Les Bastides d'Alquier, La Maison Jaune, Bardi d'Alquier Blanc
Tip: Les Bastides (Syrah-Grenache-Mourvedre) is the cellar bottle; the Maison Jaune is the entry-level Faugeres rouge.
Five-generation Faugeres family estate at Fos run by siblings Luc and Francoise Ollier on 36 hectares of schist in conversion to organic agriculture, with their parents Nicole and Alain among the architects of the 1982 AOC decree.
Tasting: Cellar tour and tasting at Fos by appointment
Signature wines: Castel Fossibus, Les Collines, Allegro
Tip: Castel Fossibus (old-vine Syrah-Mourvedre-Grenache) is the prestige bottle; the Allegro white (Roussanne-Marsanne-Vermentino) is a rare AOC Faugeres blanc.
Faugeres estate established in 2014 by Adele Arnaud and Olivier Gil, 11 hectares of old-vine schist and 4 hectares of Cotes de Thongue clay-limestone planted to Syrah, old Carignan and the rare Lledoner Pelut.
Tasting: Cellar tastings and on-site accommodation; visits by appointment
Signature wines: Angaco, Aksou, Inti
Tip: Angaco (Faugeres rouge) is the schist flagship; the estate runs five guest rooms for vineyard stays.
Faugeres cooperative winery founded in 1959 and operating under the Mas Olivier label, with the Vilavigne cellar door at Faugeres open year-round and a broad range of Faugeres AOC reds, whites and roses.
Tasting: Cellar tour and tasting at the Vilavigne cellar door at Faugeres
Signature wines: Mas Olivier Expression, Mas Olivier Grande Réserve, Mas Olivier
Tip: The Expression rouge is the cooperative's value Faugeres; the Grand Fontaine is the upper-tier old-vine bottling.
Vidal-Dumoulin family estate at the hamlet of La Liquiere in Cabrerolles, 60 hectares on the pure schist hillsides of the Faugeres appellation, certified organic.
Tasting: Cellar tour and tasting at La Liquiere by appointment
Signature wines: Cistus Rouge, Nos Racines, Les Amandiers Rouge
Tip: The Cistus rouge is the schist-driven flagship; the Nos Racines old-vine Carignan shows the estate's heritage parcels.
Eleven-hectare hilltop Faugeres estate founded in 2007 by Brigitte Chevalier after a Bordeaux trade career, set on schist bedrock inside the Haut-Languedoc Natural Park with a tasting room and gite among the vines.
Tasting: Cellar tastings at the hilltop winery by appointment; gite accommodation available
Signature wines: Belle Lurette, Felgaria, Les Bancèls
Tip: Felgaria (Mourvedre-led) is the schist flagship; Belle Lurette (old-vine Carignan-Grenache) is the heritage cuvee.
Historic Faugeres estate (formerly Jean-Michel Alquier, an early architect of the appellation), joined and renamed in 2018 by Sophie and Thibaud Bardi de Fourtou, with the schist parcels still at the core of the wines.
Tasting: Cellar tastings at Faugeres by appointment
Signature wines: Les Bastides d'Alquier, La Maison Jaune, Bardi d'Alquier Blanc
Tip: Les Bastides (Syrah-Grenache-Mourvedre) is the cellar bottle; the Maison Jaune is the entry-level Faugeres rouge.
Five-generation Faugeres family estate at Fos run by siblings Luc and Francoise Ollier on 36 hectares of schist in conversion to organic agriculture, with their parents Nicole and Alain among the architects of the 1982 AOC decree.
Tasting: Cellar tour and tasting at Fos by appointment
Signature wines: Castel Fossibus, Les Collines, Allegro
Tip: Castel Fossibus (old-vine Syrah-Mourvedre-Grenache) is the prestige bottle; the Allegro white (Roussanne-Marsanne-Vermentino) is a rare AOC Faugeres blanc.
Faugeres estate established in 2014 by Adele Arnaud and Olivier Gil, 11 hectares of old-vine schist and 4 hectares of Cotes de Thongue clay-limestone planted to Syrah, old Carignan and the rare Lledoner Pelut.
Tasting: Cellar tastings and on-site accommodation; visits by appointment
Signature wines: Angaco, Aksou, Inti
Tip: Angaco (Faugeres rouge) is the schist flagship; the estate runs five guest rooms for vineyard stays.
Faugeres cooperative winery founded in 1959 and operating under the Mas Olivier label, with the Vilavigne cellar door at Faugeres open year-round and a broad range of Faugeres AOC reds, whites and roses.
Tasting: Cellar tour and tasting at the Vilavigne cellar door at Faugeres
Signature wines: Mas Olivier Expression, Mas Olivier Grande Réserve, Mas Olivier
Tip: The Expression rouge is the cooperative's value Faugeres; the Grand Fontaine is the upper-tier old-vine bottling.
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