Domaine Gramiller Rasteau

Eighty percent old vine Grenache, Twenty percent Syrah of which thirty percent is kept as whole bunches. Grown on a parcel with extremely diverse soils: sandstone, sandy-clay marl, blue clay and pebbles. With decent elevation and these fascinating soils, the Grenache has beautiful purity and a unique character.

Vigneron Frédéric Julien used to be Vice-President of the Cooperative Cellar of Rasteau and started his own Domaine in 2017 in the village of Vaucluse. The estate takes its name from a part of the AOC called Gramiller – a terroir of many soils where they have two and a half hectares of vines. With fifteen hectares of vines spread across five lieu-dits, a term used to describe a small geographical area with a traditional name.

Since his beginnings in vine growing some twenty years ago, Frédéric Julien has always been a big supporter of organic farming and a strong believer in the importance of farming with nature, rather than against it. Frédéric's wines are very precise, with as little external input as possible: just a minimal dose of SO2 at bottling for the estate’s wines. It’s all about the fruit, his wines would convince even the staunchest critic of natural wine.