What makes the domaine so great?

It starts, as always, with the terroir and the old vines (35-115 years, though the oldest vines go in their VV cuvée). They have a mix of 80% clay/chalk soils (giving depth and limestone texture) and sandy soils giving bright, red-berried fruit. The wind and wild herbs give it the famous garrigue aromatics of rosemary and herbes de provence.

Comprising 75% steel-tank-raised fruit from these Joncquières holdings and 25% de-classified Châteauneuf-du-Pape vinified and aged in cement.