The wines > Visan

  • CAVE LES COTEAUX de VISAN

    LVT 2007 r wh rosé Lots of wine here, lots of different names. Standards have improved in the past 5 years, and some wines have local feel now. Clearer fruit is discernible in wines such as Lou Calin.

  • CLOS DU PÈRE CLÉMENT

    LVT 2007 r A big operation, with over 80 hectares, some of which make the Visan. The other communes are Tulette and Bouchet for the Côtes du Rhônes.

  • DOMAINE DE COSTE CHAUDE

    LVT 2007 r Soundly fruited Visan, with a little more roundness than has been apparent in the past at Visan. Helped by outsiders arriving with an open mind – Marianne Fues is from Zurich, her husband Marc from the Canton of the Vaud, who used to work in the formerly “illustrious” Crédit Suisse Bank… The first wine was in 1994. Around 10% can be sold in bulk, some of the Côtes du Rhône.

  • DOMAINE DE LUCÉNA

    LVT 2007 r wh rosé 60% bottled, and growing. The Michel family were at the Vinsobres Co-operative until 2004, and the first bottlingof consequence occurred in 2005. Most of the vines planted in the late 1970s by the parents when they moved it on from being a fruit farm.

  • DOMAINE DE L`OBRIEU

    LVT 2008 r Jean-Yves Perez came to the family domaine in 2003. His father is still a Co-operateur at Les Coteaux de Visan, so Jean-Yves chose to rent 5 hectares of older vines from him. His first vintage was 2005, using the cellars of Olivier Cuilleras, and with his own cellar he started in 2006. The results are promising. Bottling depends on demand – the more demand, the more is bottled.

  • DOMAINE DES LAURIBERT

    LVT 2007 r Domaine that straddles the Visan-Valréas border. Emphasis on the Syrah at Visan, the Grenache at Valréas. Sound wines here.

  • DOMAINE LA FLORANE

    LVT 2007 r wh rosé André is in his mid-twenties, and is the third generation in wine. In 2001 left the Co-opérative to work in a newly built cellar. He also owns the Saint-Maurice estate called Domaine de l`Echevin.

  • DOMAINE LA FOURMENTE

    LVT 2009 r wh rosé Advancing domaine, propelled by the son Rémi. The bottle versus bulk proportion is rising all the time, and is now about 60% all the wine, with two-thirds of that in Visan itself. The domaine is officially organic, and is moving towards biodynamic practices. The Pouizins also have 5 hectares of lavender, from which they make an essential oil of lavendin, from the abrial variety.

  • DOMAINE LA GUINTRANDY

    LVT 2007 r Olivier is a trained oenologue from the Montpellier Wine School, who worked as assistant in Saint-Joseph and Condrieu before starting his own cellars in 2000. Modern wines, the best of which is the Vieilles Vignes. They could be more relaxed.

  • DOMAINE ROCHE-AUDRAN

    LVT 2007 r 2006 wh In his mid-thirties, the enthusiastic Vincent started on his own in 1998, when he left the Visan Co-opérative. Organic and some biodynamic measures here. Promise in the classic wines, risk of high extraction in the "top" wines.