The Best Wineries in Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Bertrand Gonnet Vignerons

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Bertrand Gonnet Vignerons belongs to the quieter side of Châteauneuf-du-Pape: a small family domaine where old-vine Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvèdre matter more than visitor theatre. The interest here is terroir expression, especially the Font du Roi / Font du Vent orbit and the La Font du Roi Lieu-dit Les Combes cuvée, rather than a polished tasting-room performance.

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Caves Jamet

Courthézon, France

Caves Jamet is a family-run Rhône cellar in Courthézon, tied to five generations of Jamet farming and the Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC. The appeal is not polish but place: galet-strewn slopes, mistral-shaped viticulture, Grenache-led blends and a vaulted cave where fruit-forward reds, whites, rosé and dessert wines sit within a traditional Southern Rhône frame.

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Cellier des Princes

Courthézon, France

Cellier des Princes gives Courthézon a cooperative lens on Châteauneuf-du-Pape: Grenache-led Southern Rhône wines, a large tasting and retail room, and a format built for education rather than ceremony. Its scale matters, with around 116–120 growers farming more than 600 hectares, yet the appeal is the direct reading of sand, galets and Mediterranean heat in the glass.

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Château Beauchêne

Piolenc, France

Château Beauchêne is a family-run Southern Rhône estate in Piolenc, tied to Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC through old vines, galets roulés and a Grenache-led red-wine tradition. The draw is not spectacle but context: a historic farm setting, guided tasting format, and a portfolio that moves between Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Côtes du Rhône with a clear sense of place.

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Château de Beaucastel

Flayosc, France

Operating from within the Château de Berne estate in Flayosc, Château de Beaucastel holds a first vintage dating to 1779, placing it among the older continuous wine-producing addresses in Provence.

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Château de la Gardine

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Château de la Gardine is a historic family estate in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, working Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Roussanne and Clairette across estate vineyards and a surrounding forest belt. The draw is terroir literacy: Rhône valley views, an educational cellar format, sustainable vineyard practice and wines shaped by limestone, Mistral and old-vine southern Rhône structure.

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Château du Mourre du Tendre

Courthézon, France

Château du Mourre du Tendre is a small family-run Rhône estate in Courthézon, working old-vine Grenache, Mourvèdre, Cinsault and Carignan across Côtes-du-Rhône, Côtes-du-Rhône Villages and Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC. Its appeal is not cellar-door polish but terroir legibility: whole-cluster reds, long ageing in concrete and foudre, and a Provençal farmhouse setting tied closely to the Paumel family’s hill of vines.

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Château Fargueirol

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Château Fargueirol is a family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate shaped by rocky galets, old-vine Grenache, and a northern appellation setting. The appeal is not spectacle but terroir literacy: classic red blends, a small white production, and a relaxed vineyard tasting format that makes sense for visitors who want the Southern Rhône explained through soil, vine age, and cellar choices.

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Chateau Fortia

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Château Fortia is a historic Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate where the visit is framed by vineyard, cellar and appellation history rather than tasting-room gloss. Its interest lies in terroir expression: a 32-hectare estate, Syrah-forward red blends, white varieties in Roussanne and Grenache Blanc, and a direct line to Baron Le Roy’s role in shaping France’s AOC system.

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Château Rayas

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Chateau Rayas is among Châteauneuf-du-Pape's most scrutinised addresses, held up across the wine world as a reference point for what pure, old-vine Grenache can achieve in this southern Rhône appellation. Allocation is tight, critical attention is intense, and its wines consistently anchor debates about terroir expression in the region.

Château Simian

Piolenc, France

Château Simian is a fifth-generation organic and biodynamic family estate in Piolenc, working Southern Rhône varieties across Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Massif d’Uchaux, Côtes-du-Rhône and Vin de Pays holdings. The draw is terroir rather than spectacle: vineyard and cellar visits, still red and white wines, and a rustic tasting setting shaped by limestone, clay, sandstone, pebbles and the cooling influence of the Provence hills.

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Clos des Papes

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Clos Des Papes is one of Châteauneuf-du-Pape's most consistently referenced domaines, led by winemaker Paul-Vincent Avril and. Visitors planning a southern Rhône itinerary will find it a logical anchor point for the village.

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Clos du Calvaire

Sorgues, France

Clos du Calvaire gives Sorgues a grounded Châteauneuf-du-Pape tasting address: family-run, organic-certified since 2020, and shaped by parcels of galets roulés, limestone, red grès and sand. The draw is terroir literacy rather than spectacle, with a rustic estate setting, cellar context and a portfolio anchored by Grenache-led reds and a white from the appellation.

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Clos Du Mont-Olivet

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Clos Du Mont-Olivet is a traditional Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate for drinkers who care about soil, vine age, and cellar potential rather than polished tasting-room theatre. The draw is the Southern Rhône in a classical register: Grenache-led reds, still whites, old-vine parcels, sustainable farming, and a historic stone-house setting tied to four generations of the Sabon family.

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Domaine Albin Jacumin

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A modern family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape domaine with 19 hectares in the appellation and a cellar renovation dating to 2012. The interest here is terroir range: northern-plateau parcels, Grenache-led reds, a small white production, and limited cuvées that show how this appellation can move between accessibility and age-worthy structure.

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Domaine André Brunel

Sorgues, France

Domaine André Brunel has produced wine from its Sorgues base since 1971, with winemaker Fabrice Brunel now stewarding the estate. It represents the generation-spanning character that defines serious family production in this corridor.

Domaine André Mathieu

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine André Mathieu is a historic Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate with family roots traced to around 1600 and formal establishment in 1854. Its appeal is traditional rather than polished: old foudres, spontaneous fermentation, scattered parcels, and a rare commitment to all 13 authorized AOC grape varieties shape a cellar experience built around terroir rather than hospitality theatre.

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Domaine Barville

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Barville is a Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate under Maison Brotte, shaped by 15 hectares of estate-grown fruit on Pradel clay-pebble soils and Beaurenard shattered limestone. The wines sit firmly in the appellation’s Grenache-led tradition, with Syrah, Mourvèdre and Roussanne adding structure, texture and a white-wine counterpoint.

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Domaine Berthet Capeau

Courthézon, France

Domaine Berthet Capeau is a small organic Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate in Courthézon, built around Grenache, cellar tastings, and a working-farm rhythm rather than polished hospitality theatre. Its appeal is terroir-led: clay-limestone soils, galets roulés, family continuity, and a focused red-wine identity anchored by Élixir des Papes.

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Domaine Bois de Boursan

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A small, family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate for drinkers who care about old-vine structure, organic farming and cellar tradition over polished visitor theatre. Domaine Bois de Boursan works across 27 parcels, uses all 13 permitted appellation varieties and keeps the tasting format quiet, guided and wine-led.

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Domaine Chante-Perdrix

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Chante-Perdrix is a traditional Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate shaped by old vines, galets roulés stones, and a Grenache-led Southern Rhône register. Founded in 1896 and run by the fifth generation of the Nicolet family, it suits travelers who want the appellation’s warm, rustic, vineyard-first character rather than a polished hospitality production.

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Domaine Charvin

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Charvin operates from the limestone and clay soils north of Orange, where Laurent Charvin produces Châteauneuf-du-Pape in a style that prioritises site expression over intervention.

Domaine Christophe Mestre

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Christophe Mestre is a small family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape cellar with a traditional Rhône register: red and white blends, a cellar tasting format, and a practical rather than polished sense of hospitality. The draw is terroir context at close range, with 17 hectares, four generations of winegrowing, and a portfolio that includes Cuvée des Sommeliers and the Syrosé rosé introduced in 2020.

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Domaine Clef de Saint Thomas

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A small Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate with 12 hectares across four lieux-dits, Domaine Clef de Saint Thomas reads the appellation through plot work, old-vine Grenache and Syrah, and a concise red-and-white portfolio. Its appeal is not spectacle but scale: propriétaire-récoltant production, village-cellar intimacy, and a countryside hospitality style tied to the estate’s lime-tree gatherings.

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Domaine de Ferrand

Orange, France

Domaine de Ferrand is a small family-run Rhône estate in Orange, working Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Côtes du Rhône fruit through old vines, organic growing and a cellar style that avoids barriques. The interest here is not architectural theatre, but the way sandy clay, galets roulés and low-yield Grenache-led parcels translate into a traditional southern Rhône register.

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Domaine de la Charbonnière

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A fourth-generation Maret family estate in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Domaine de la Charbonnière is strongest when read through its soils: La Crau, Les Brusquières and Mourre des Perdrix each shape a different register of Southern Rhône red. The visit is built around focused estate tasting rather than spectacle, with traditional cuvées, sustainable vineyard work and critic recognition from Wine Advocate, Jeb Dunnuck and Wine Spectator anchoring its reputation.

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Domaine de la Consonnière

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine de la Consonnière is a small family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate shaped by old-vine Grenache, restrained cellar work, and a traditional tasting format. Its appeal is not spectacle but focus: 8 hectares, limited volumes, cellar tastings, and a red wine language rooted in the Southern Rhône’s heat, stones, and long Grenache tradition.

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Domaine de la Cote de l'Ange

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate for travelers who care more about galets roulés, old Grenache and cellar context than polished tasting-room theatre. Domaine de la Cote de l'Ange works from 15.5 hectares in the appellation plus 4 hectares of Côtes du Rhône, with Grenache-led reds, a small white Châteauneuf-du-Pape thread, and critic recognition from Jeb Dunnuck and Jancis Robinson.

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Domaine de la Janasse

Courthézon, France

Domaine de la Janasse has been producing wine in Courthézon, in the southern Rhône, since its first vintage in 1973. The domaine sits on the Chemin du Moulin and represents one of the more carefully watched addresses in the appellation for Grenache-driven wines.

Domaine de la Solitude

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Under winemaker Florent Lançon, the estate sits on the plateau outside the village where the appellation's characteristic galets roulés define both the terrain and the wines. It belongs to the tier of historically grounded Châteauneuf producers whose reputations rest on site continuity rather than recent reinvention.

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne

Orange, France

Operating from the same Le Grès terroir since 1905, Domaine de la Vieille Julienne is among the Southern Rhône's most enduring biodynamic estates.

Domaine de Marcoux

Orange, France

Domaine de Marcoux is a Southern Rhône estate based in Orange, producing wines since its first vintage in 1978 under winemaker Sophie Armenier. Visitors and collectors approaching this address encounter a property whose track record spans nearly five decades of continuous production.

Domaine de Saje

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine de Saje is a small family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate built around old-school Rhône methods: field-blended parcels, Grenache-led reds, old foudres, and no push toward new oak or exaggerated ripeness. Its 9.4 hectares include 7.4 hectares across 26 Châteauneuf-du-Pape parcels, giving the wines a deliberately traditional reading of the appellation.

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Domaine des Pères de l'Eglise

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A historic family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape domaine for travelers who care more about old-vine Grenache, cellar craft, and Southern Rhône terroir than polished tasting-room theatre. The draw is concentrated, ageworthy red and white wines shaped by limestone, galets, biodynamic farming, and six generations of family continuity in the village.

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Domaine des Saumades

Courthézon, France

Domaine des Saumades is a small Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate in Courthézon, founded in 1995 and shaped around sandy Pignan parcels rather than volume. Its appeal is terroir precision: Grenache-led reds, a scarce white from Grenache Blanc, Clairette and Bourboulenc, and cellar work that favours older barrels over oak display.

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Domaine des Sénéchaux

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine des Sénéchaux is a historic Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate with vineyard roots traced to the 14th century and a modern chapter shaped by the JM Cazes family. The focus is classic Southern Rhône still red and white wine, led by Grenache for the reds, across a 27-hectare estate with a quiet, traditional cellar-door feel.

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Domaine du Calcernier

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine du Calcernier is a small, independent Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate built around Grenache-led Southern Rhône blends and a village tasting-room format. The draw is not architectural theatre or luxury staging, but a compact look at how the appellation’s heat, galets, limestone history and low-yield rules translate into red and white wines from a family-run domaine.

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Domaine du Clos de l'Oratoire des Papes

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A historic Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate shaped by rolled-pebble terroir, old priory cellars and a focused red-and-white Rhône portfolio. Domaine du Clos de l'Oratoire des Papes suits visitors who want a cellar-led tasting framed around soil, blending and ageing rather than a broad hospitality complex.

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Domaine du Clos Saint Jean

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Situated on Rue du Moulin à Vent, the domaine works within one of the Southern Rhône's most demanding appellations, where sustainable viticulture and the region's famously complex terroir shape every vintage.

Domaine du Comte Christophe de Courten

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A small Châteauneuf-du-Pape family estate for drinkers who care more about old vines, authorized varieties and village-cellar intimacy than spectacle. Domaine du Comte Christophe de Courten works a 6-hectare holding, grows all 13 permitted grapes and bottles only a selected share of production, making the tasting feel closely tied to the appellation’s traditional grammar.

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Domaine du Pegau

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine du Pegau has been producing Châteauneuf-du-Pape since its first vintage in 1987, with Laurence Feraud overseeing a program built around extended aging and traditional blending. Located at 15 Avenue Impériale, it sits among the appellation's most closely watched producers for old-vine Grenache-led assemblage.

Domaine du Vieux Donjon

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

The domaine occupies the quieter, producer-focused end of French wine, where terroir expression and vineyard longevity carry more weight than public visibility. It rewards the visitor prepared to seek it out.

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Domaine du Vieux Lazaret

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine du Vieux Lazaret is a historic Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate tied to the Quiot family and the southern Rhône’s long blending tradition. Its interest lies in scale, continuity, and terroir expression: over 250 acres, a 13-variety red blend, vat aging, and a Wine Spectator 93-point rating for the 2019 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rouge.

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Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe

Bédarrides, France

Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe is one of Châteauneuf-du-Pape's most closely watched estates, farmed by the Brunier family from their base in Bédarrides. For anyone building a serious Rhône cellar, this is a reference point rather than a discovery.

Domaine Durieu

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Durieu reads Châteauneuf-du-Pape through old-vine Grenache, galets roulés and a family line tied to the village for centuries. The estate works across red and white Châteauneuf-du-Pape, with whole-cluster-leaning traditional methods, sustainable farming, and limited cuvées that make the tasting feel rooted in vineyard detail rather than cellar spectacle.

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Domaine Font de Michelle

Bédarrides, France

Domaine Font de Michelle is a family-run organic Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate in Bédarrides, shaped by a 30-hectare holding in the southeast sector of the appellation and additional Rhône vineyards in Domazan. The draw is not spectacle, but a traditional cellar format, vineyard context, and wines framed around Grenache-led reds and structured white Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

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Domaine Giuliani

Bédarrides, France

Domaine Giuliani is a family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate in Bédarrides, shaped by old low-yield vines, clay-limestone soils, rolled pebbles, the Rhône River and the Mistral. The draw is not cellar-door theatre but a quiet, rural read on southern Rhône terroir, with red and white wines framed by a modest, traditional estate setting.

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Domaine Juliette Avril

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

A traditional Châteauneuf-du-Pape cellar tasting with a terroir-first point of view: Grenache-led Rhône blends, a quiet village setting, and a family estate history that reaches back to 1928. Domaine Juliette Avril suits visitors who want the appellation’s heat, galets, and blending culture explained through the glass rather than packaged as wine-tour spectacle.

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Domaine l'Abbe Dîne

Courthézon, France

A small family-run Rhône domaine in Courthézon, Domaine l'Abbe Dîne gives Châteauneuf-du-Pape a grounded, parcel-led reading rather than a trophy-cellar gloss. The interest lies in sandy, fragmented vineyard land, Grenache-led reds, Clairette-driven whites, and a producer scale that keeps the tasting close to the agricultural reality of the appellation.

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Domaine L'or de Line

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine L'or de Line is a small organic estate in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, better read through its parcels than through cellar-door polish. Its appeal is the Southern Rhône in close focus: Grenache-led reds, white varieties with real local footing, and a family-run format that keeps attention on vineyard practice rather than spectacle.

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Domaine La Barroche

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine La Barroche is a Châteauneuf-du-Pape producer under winemaker Julien Barrot, working from a first vintage of 2003 and. The domaine operates within the southern Rhône's demanding terroir tradition, producing wines that have drawn serious collector attention. Based on the Chemin du Clos in the heart of the appellation, it represents one of the region's more closely watched addresses.

Domaine La Boutinière

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine La Boutinière suits travelers who want Châteauneuf-du-Pape through the lens of farming rather than spectacle. The family estate works across 18 hectares, including 11 hectares in Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC, with old-vine parcels, all 13 permitted varieties, organic conversion, and small-scale hospitality built around tastings, vineyard context, and informal wine-and-music evenings.

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Domaine Les Garriques de Pierrefeu

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Les Garriques de Pierrefeu sits in the export-minded corner of Châteauneuf-du-Pape: a 2013 red-wine label tied to Domaine Mestre and built around the appellation’s Southern Rhône identity. The interest here is less cellar-door theatre than terroir discipline, with the AOC’s galets, Grenache-led red tradition and papal-era history doing the heavy lifting.

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Domaine Mas Saint Louis

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Mas Saint Louis is a family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate shaped by old-vine Grenache, Sorgues soils, and a cellar approach that favours structure without excessive weight. The Geniest family’s century-plus stewardship, 40 hectares of vineyards, cement-tank fermentation, and large-cask ageing place it in the traditional Rhône camp, with a fresher, more Burgundian-leaning interpretation of the appellation.

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Domaine Moulin Tacussel

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Moulin Tacussel suits travelers who want Châteauneuf-du-Pape through old-vine Grenache rather than cellar-door theatre. The estate works a small 7.85-hectare holding across multiple lieux-dits, with red and white AOP wines that keep the focus on Southern Rhône soils, traditional élevage, and limited production.

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Domaine Olivier Hillaire

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Olivier Hillaire belongs to the small-estate side of Châteauneuf-du-Pape: family-run, Grenache-led, and shaped by old vines on sand, clay, and rolled-pebble soils. The draw is terroir rather than spectacle, with organic farming, low yields, and a portfolio that moves from Châteauneuf-du-Pape reds and whites to Côtes du Rhône and Vin de France bottlings.

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Domaine Paul Autard

Courthézon, France

Domaine Paul Autard is a family-run Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Côtes-du-Rhône estate in Courthézon. Vines aged 40 to 95 years grow on clay-limestone soils and galets roulés, with reds from Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Cinsault and Merlot and whites from Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Roussanne and Viognier.

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Domaine Pierre Usseglio

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Pierre Usseglio has shaped Châteauneuf-du-Pape since its first vintage in 1949, with winemaker Thierry Usseglio carrying the estate into its eighth decade of production. The domaine draws serious collectors and visitors who come to understand Châteauneuf at its most historically grounded.

Domaine Reveirolles

Bédarrides, France

Domaine Reveirolles is a small family-run southern Rhône estate in Bédarrides, working 20 hectares with a focused range of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Côtes du Rhône and Vin de France wines. The interest here is terroir over theatre: old vines clustered close to the cellar, a restrained cellar regime, and a style that privileges freshness, balance and fruit clarity.

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Domaine Saint Préfert

Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France

Domaine Saint Préfert is a Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate with roots dating to 1920, now producing under winemaker Isabel Ferrando. Visitors approaching the estate find a property shaped as much by its geological inheritance as by any recent intervention.