Producer Domaine Charvin

FRANCE, CHATEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE

Châteauneuf-du-Pape is indisputably among the largest terroirs of the Rhone and France. It is here, and precisely in the lieu-dit Maucoil, in the territory of the municipality of Orange north of the appellation, that the Domaine Charvin was born in the now distant 1851, at the time of the Second Republic, by the hand of Guillaume Charavin (the modification of the family surname was a trivial administrative oversight of the early twentieth century). Today, the 33-hectare company of vineyards is led by Laurent Charvin, who in taking over the estate in the early nineties decided to take the path of organic farming (Écocert certification), eliminating the chemistry in the vineyard. This radical choice finds its ideal compendium in the cellar, with a vinification free from enological additives: no selected yeasts, no enzymes, sulphites managed sparingly. The company remains faithful to the idea of ​​maceration of whole bunches, not de-stemmed, an increasingly crucial solution, in the Châteauneuf of the 21st century, to preserve the expressive freshness of wines. This is how wines of crystalline class, expressive purity and great gustatory impetus are born, an impeccable expression of the terroir.