LVT 2011 r Respectable quality, on the rise. Gigondas, Vacqueyras and Plan de Dieu as well as Sablet. 56 members, 306 hectares, which is small. It was announced in January 2017 that the Cave would become part of the Cercle des Vignerons du Rhône, which is the fusion of the Cave de Rasteau Ortas and the Cave Les Coteaux de Visan. Cost cutting was the main reason.

LVT 2015  r  Organic estate, a recent name. 4 hectares across 15 terraced rows, low yields. Jérôme Busato is an oenologue. The 2015 Sablet red was a full, polished **** wine. There is also an organic Sablet rosé. Cor Hominis Laetificat is their merchant range, soldunder the Maison Rouge merchant title – Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas, Vacqueyras reds.

LVT 2016 r Cécile has also been a professional dancer, and has dabbled in merchant wines. The Gigondas is from her own plot of 1.6 hectares at altitude on Le Pourra in the Dentelles.

LVT 2016 r  2011  wh  After separating from his brother Bernard of Domaine de la Verquière in 1992, Denis Chamfort set up on his own. He then sold to Vasco Perdigao in September 2010, Vasco having worked with Monsieur Chamfort before then. His father is Portuguese from Lisbon, his mother is French Basque. He worked with Alain Paret at Saint-Joseph and Condrieu in the Northern Rhône for seven years. Promising Rasteau with local feel, while the Vacqueyras is very sound, the old vine Les 2 Louis, half Grenache, half Mourvèdre from a co-planted 1960s plot at Sarrians, was a traditional, warm lands **** wine in 2016.

LVT 2016 r  2014  wh  A wide range of wines from a long-established Sablet grower, including elegant Gigondas. Organic wines. Usually good value.

LVT 2013 r 2014 wh Wide range here, so possible lack of focus. The white has always been a favourite, ages well, good with foods, now more forward (Viognier in it). Ténébi is a Counoise wine, a rarity. Sablet reds can be full, long-lived, ditto Gigondas.

LVT 2016 r  2015 rosé 2014 wh  Mainstream domaine, long-established at Sablet, also make Plan de Dieu, Rasteau and Vacqueyras. They are now officially organic. The 2016 Vacqueyras was a typically unpretentious ***(*) wine

LVT 2017 r First bottling of consequence from 2002 – bulk sales only before that. Traditional. full-bodied wines, no pretension. Good, regular Gigondas, as well, vat only raising, the 2015 and 2016 both ***(*), the 2017 ****. The 2015 Plan de Dieu red was an STGT **** wine, with much local truth. The wines are now organic.

LVT  2012  r  Traditional wines

LVT  2015  r  Rustic Côtes du Rhône red in 2015, with a traditional, lusty *** Sablet red in 2012

LVT 2015 r  2011 wh  Has converted to organic. The classic Séguret is rootsy style wine, buckle your seat belts, and invite a local wild boar in for the evening, but I detect a relative increase in fine-ness with the 2015 vintage - the Classic and the oaked Marquise red were both ***(*) wines, as was the Sablet Réserve red

LVT 2015 r  Loïc is the sixth generation of his family with vineyards, 16 hectares at Sablet, the crop going to the Co-operative. He has spent time in Australia, and will widen his range after a 1,300 bottle Gigondas in 2015. The Gigondas was bottled a winter too early, but still came out as a **** wine, with style and cool features.