Domaine Saint Amant

An altitude domain in the south. Superb site which dominates the Rhône valley, with a breathtaking view of the Dentelles de Montmirail, Mont Ventoux, the Vaucluse mountains, the Lubéron, the Alpilles... The terroir is composed of small terraces on hillsides, on mixed soil, stony and/or marly scree, heckled, complex, some of which date back to the Triassic period (120 million years ago) between 400 and 600m above sea level.
Half of the vines are white grapes from viognier with a little Roussanne
.

The reds are in AOC Beaumes de Venise.

Our story

It was almost 25 years ago that my parents Jacques and Nathalie Wallut left Paris to settle in the small town of Suzette, which they had discovered some twenty years earlier.
Active and creative, they founded the Domaine Saint Amant by buying vines on the right and left and replanting viognier, the emblematic Condrieu grape variety to which my father dedicated a
fetishist cult.

They are accompanied in this process by a renowned oenologist from Chateauneuf du Pape

: Noël Rabot.

From 0 hectares in 1990, the estate has grown to 13 hectares in 2015, including 5.5 hectares planted with

viognier. The

modern cellar, buried, equipped with a cooling unit, and where the grapes are encuvés by gravity, was built in 1995, and the first vintages were created that

year.

You have to start selling....

The

whole family started to work on it, and that's when I got a taste for the complex - but oh so satisfying - winegrower's job

.

In 2002, I became its manager. The

foot!