Château de la Selve

In 2002, Benoît Chazallon, a recent graduate of the Beaune wine school, took over the family vineyard and began restructuring it, with “the daily ambition of crafting lively wines of great finesse and freshness, a pure expression of our terroirs.” A true gem, the estate’s natural environment reveals great potential for wine production, with sunshine, cool nights, wild landscapes, limestone soils, garrigue, humus, truffles… To allow the terroir to express itself, it goes without saying for Benoit Chazallon that the life in the soil must be preserved, which is why he has been cultivating the vineyards using organic and biodynamic methods since 2002. This dedication paid off, as he was named “Discovery of the Year” in 2012 at the Trophées du Vin, organized by the Revue des Vins de France, which annually honors professionals in the wine industry.

Château de la Selve cultivates five different grape varieties across 38 hectares of vineyards in the Coteaux de l’Ardèche IGP: for reds, Grenache, Cinsault, Syrah, and Cabernet Sauvignon; and for whites, Viognier. The focus is primarily on balance and soil health to allow the concept of terroir to shine through, and controlled yields ranging from 25 to 45 hectoliters per hectare enable greater concentration in the wines.