Domaine de la Jaufrette

Founded in 1956

27 hectares

The wines of Domaine de la Jaufrette are resolutely old-fashioned, as the domaine has refused to change the winemaking style since André and Paulette Chastan moved to Orange in the 1950s. The couple both came from winemaking families in the Southern Rhône (André from Vacqueyras, Paulette from Gigondas), though they wanted to create their own domaine. As a young married couple, they purchased land just on the edge of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and planted 5 hectares of Cotes-du-Rhone. Over the next decades, they took over the nearby family vineyards in Vacqueyras and Gigondas, purchased a few others, and in the 1980s, their son Alain was able to add a few hectares of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

Today, Domaine de la Jaufrette is run by Alain’s son Frederic, who has maintained the same tra...