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The wines > Beaumes-de-Venise

• CHÂTEAU REDORTIER
  

  LVT 2009 r The highest vineyards in Gigondas, cool-textured wines, but recent gain in ripeness is notable, and good.

• DOMAINE CHINIARD
  

  LVT 2007 r A start-up, with father having worked in the gas industry. The Chiniards come from the centre of France and the Vosges. No herbicides, insecticides, synthetic products used. Hand harvesting. Natural, local wine.

• DOMAINE DE CASSAN
  

  LVT 2009 r 2007 wh Good quality wines - vineyards are high, so the wines contain good acidity and reward patience in the cellaring. Some STGT wines here. After the 2009 vintage, the 7.5 hectares of Gigondas vineyards were sold to a group that includes Château La Croix des Pins, a Ventoux producer at Mazan, and Didier Cornillon, whose family have a 15 hectare vineyard at Clairette de Die and Châtillon-en-Diois in the Southern Drôme Valley (in effect the south of the Northern Rhône). Domaine de Cassan will continue with Ventoux and Beaumes-de-Venise vineyards, run by the two Croset brothers, whose sister Marie-Odile is married to the ex-director of Cassan, Gérard Paillet.

• DOMAINE DE DURBAN
  

  LVT 2010 r 2008 Muscat The Daddy domaine at Muscat, which has been finer in recent vintages. Easy going reds.

• DOMAINE DE FENOUILLET
  

• DOMAINE DE LA PIGEADE
  

  LVT 2010 Musc The benchmark name for Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise

• DOMAINE DES BERNARDINS
  

  LVT 2007 r 2008 sw wh Long-time good Muscat source, intense, aromtaic wine. Reds are whole bunch fermented, have character. Andrew Hall one of the first Englishmen to work in the Rhône, way back in the 1970s.

• DOMAINE LA LIGIÈRE
  

  LVT 2010 r Organic producers of Vacqueyras mainly, plus Beaumes-de-Venise and very small amounts of Gigondas, which was very good in 2010. First vintage in 2008, tricky start.

• DOMAINE SAINT-AMANT
  

  LVT 2009 r wh High altitude vines that are growing up now, notably the Viognier. Improving wines as a result.