The domain's short story
It is on the foothills of the Massif Central, a few kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea and on a schist terroir, that Pierre Gaillard cultivates 10 ha of vines on hills that constitute the first rise of the Massif Central on the plain of Béziers. Thus, after having tamed the vertiginous slopes of the Côte Rôtie terroirs, he tries to tame the schist terroirs of the Faugères valley perched at high altitude. Indeed it is the difficulty that seems to stimulate him and the main slopes of the Faugères appellation, believing that it is there that the most expressive terroirs reside that give freshness and power to the wines of the Domaine. The vines are in the middle of the wilderness, surrounded by scrubland and woods, and draw their typicality from the brown schist that makes up the majority of the soil. The grape varieties used are, for the red wines, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. And for the white wines, the Grey and White Grenache, the Roussanne and the Vermentino. During the vinification, the grape varieties are picked separately in order to have a fruit at the optimum of its maturity. After a thorough settling in vats, the fermentation is done in barrels at a rather low temperature in order to make it last in length and to preserve the fruit at best.
