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Domaine Les Mille Vignes

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Today, it is Valérie Guérin who holds the estate's fate in her passionate hands The Thousand Vineyards. The origin of this name, which sounds like something out of a storybook, lies with Jacques Guérin, a professor and oenologist in Orange, who acquired 1,000 grapevines in 1979 in the town of La Palme, in the Aude department. In 2000, he was joined by his daughter, Valérie Guérin, who brings meticulous care to the vineyard—a 11-hectare estate comprising 13 distinct plots that she tends like gardens within the Fitou, Rivesaltes, and Muscat de Rivesaltes appellations.

The estate’s “Mille Vignes” vineyards overlook the sea in the distance and are bordered by ponds and scrubland. A wide range of choices allows the estate to produce wines full of character—concentrated, precise, and distinctive—through massale selection, old vines (Grenache and Carignan), grape varieties native to the region, soil management without potash or nitrogen, green harvesting to limit yields (extremely low, at 20 hl/ha), and barrel-free aging.

The wines produced at theLes Mille Vignes estate offer a wonderful variety: 2 white wines, 1 rosé, 5 red wines, as well as 2 naturally sweet wines and 2 dessert wines. Valérie Guérin crafts exceptional wines worthy of the greatest names in the industry, which now grace the wine lists of France’s finest restaurants, leaving even the most discerning wine connoisseurs in awe.

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