Côtes du Rhone

Domaine de la Jaufrette

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Domaine de la Jaufrette C“tes du Rh“ne rouge

Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Variety

Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah, Carignan, Cinsault, Counoise

This cuvée is the fruit of a marriage between Frédéric's grandparents. Each was from a winemaking family, but left home to create their own project in the 1950s. The young couple could only afford humble vines in Côtes-du-Rhône, but they chose vineyards laden with galets, which resemble the best neighboring terroirs, and slowly grew the domaine over many decades.

Viticulture

Soil type

Stony clay-limestone plateau

Vine age55 years old on average, up to 70 years old

Vinification

Whole harvest (not crushed, partially destemmed depending on the vintage). Traditional vinification in thermoregaluted long vatting. The different grape varieties are vinified together in order to obtain great aromatic complexity.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

More about
the producer

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...