Domaine Les Pallières

Domaine Les Pallières is a superb 25-hectare vineyard clinging to the back of the Dentelles de Montmirail in the Rhône Valley, masterfully planted by the Hilarion Roux family in the middle of a northwest-facing Mediterranean forest. It was in 1998 that brothers Brunier and Kermit Lynch had the opportunity and decided to become owners of this superb site, planted with Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Mourvèdre, Clairette and Bourboulenc grapes, thus sealing a partnership that had begun more than 20 years earlier, when the first cases of Vieux Télégraphe were imported into the United States.

The first few years were naturally devoted to restoring the vineyards of Domaine Les Pallières. Four years later, the new winery was built, in which they have scrupulously respected their philosophy of receiving grapes by gravity, and where the production of each parcel can finally receive very specific care, given their diversity of character.

The Domaine Les Pallières style has now been established. It has been imposed on them by the landscape, by the influence of this very particular exposure, by the limestone scree coming down from the foothills of the Dentelles, mixed with this clay-sand soil from which the roots of a very old vineyard draw their resources. With a style that is both rugged and elegant, warm and mineral, Domaine Les Pallières produces a Gigondas par excellence for aging.