Domaine de la Biscarelle

Domaine de la Biscarelle is located in the Grès district of ORANGE, halfway between the Cité des Princes and the famous village of Châteauneuf du Pape. It has been run by Jérôme Grieco and his wife Christelle since their first vintage in 2009. They lead the vineyard with talent, producing wines of rare quality. In 2013, La Revue du Vin de France awarded them the "Discovery of the Year" prize.

The Domaine de la Biscarelle vineyard covers 22 hectares of vines and 2 different appellations: Côtes du Rhône: 17 hectares of vines between forty and eighty years old. Châteauneuf du Pape: 5 hectares (with some plots as old as one hundred years) located in the northern part of the appellation, with vines planted mainly on hillsides, where the vines are shod with their famous round pebbles that the mistral wind sweeps away all year round. Phytosanitary treatments are kept to a minimum, with all efforts concentrated on working the soil.

At Domaine de la Biscarelle, the grapes are picked in crates and sorted by hand at optimum ripeness, and are neither destemmed nor crushed. Maturation takes place in concrete vats in order to "express the terroir as fully as possible, without imposing any artifice.