One of Gigondas's most respected traditional estates, producing Grenache-dominant reds from old vines on clay-limestone slopes.
Signature wines: raspail-ay-gigondas
Address: Route de Sablet, 84190 Gigondas, France, Rhone Valley
Gigondas estate with recorded winemaking history to the 15th century, run by Louis Barruol as both domaine and Southern Rhone negociant.
Tasting: Tasting room open at the chateau; appointment recommended
Signature wines: saint-cosme-gigondas, saint-cosme-le-claux
Tip: The estate occupies the hillside above the village with Roman-era cellars carved from the rock.
Gigondas estate with recorded winemaking history to the 15th century, run by Louis Barruol as both domaine and Southern Rhone negociant.
Tasting: Tasting room open at the chateau; appointment recommended
Signature wines: saint-cosme-gigondas, saint-cosme-le-claux
Tip: The estate occupies the hillside above the village with Roman-era cellars carved from the rock.
Rasteau family domaine producing both the dry appellation red and the traditional Rasteau vin doux naturel (VDN), one of the few maintaining this fortified wine tradition.
Tasting: Tasting room open at the domaine in Rasteau
Signature wines: soumade-rasteau-confiance, soumade-rasteau-vdn
Tip: The Rasteau VDN is a fortified Grenache in Rancio style; a disappearing tradition well worth seeking out.
Jerome Bressy's Rasteau estate, founded in 1996, declassifies its wines to IGP Vaucluse and farms old-vine field blends including rare local varieties such as Camarese, Counoise, and Vaccarese on 14 hectares of clay-limestone.
Tasting: By appointment at the domaine
Signature wines: gourt-de-mautens-igp
Tip: Production is around 30,000 bottles annually; wines allocated through specialist importers and a small mailing list.
Cairanne and Gigondas producer with a large portfolio, a reference estate for the newly elevated Cairanne AOC.
Tasting: Open tasting room at the domaine in Cairanne
Signature wines: brusset-cairanne
Long-established Cairanne estate well-known for the Grande Garde cuvee from old vines across multiple appellations.
Tasting: Open tasting room; Monday to Saturday
Signature wines: presidente-cairanne
Negociant house sourcing old-vine Rhone fruit across both north and south for barrel-aged cuvees of concentration and depth.
Tasting: By appointment; offices in Lourmarin
Signature wines: tardieu-laurent-chateauneuf-vv, tardieu-laurent-gigondas
