Mes Racines Domaine Le Vieux Lavoir 2021

Mes Racines Domaine Le Vieux Lavoir 2020

Domaine Le Vieux Lavoir Cotes du Rhone from Mes Racines is a really good wine with power. Lots of juice and power, complex with delicious spices, ripe berries and balanced tannins. A wine that deserves food, which will also make the tannins silky smooth.

The experience:
Deliciously powerful and complex with a fantastic aroma of red fruits and cherries with spices and cherries. The red berries in the aroma are reflected in the taste with the spices and the good tannins.

Mes Racines is made by Sébastien Jouffret, he wanted to honor his roots and pay tribute to those who passed on precious knowledge to him. Created in the spirit of his ancestors, Mes Rascines (my roots) is a fantastic wine from a magnificent terroir with a particularly sunny exposure.

Server for: Strong dishes with flavor and spice, red meat, strong stews and cheeses.

About the Vinhuset:

Since 1870, five generations of the Roudil family have grown wine, at the old mill 'Le Vieux Moulin' in the town of Pujaut in the southern Rhône, near Tavel. In the 1930s, Aimé Roudil was actually one of the driving forces behind the creation of the Tavel appellation, together with Baron Le Roy of Château Fortia in Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Tavel got its own appellation in 1936, like Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

In 2002, Véronique Roudil and her husband Didier Jouffret built a modern winery with associated cellar. Architectural inspiration from the town's old wash house and therefore named the property 'Le Vieux Lavoir'. Today, Aimé Roudil's grandson Sebastien Jouffret runs the winery and is responsible for the actual production. His wife Stephanie is in charge of finance and sales. The couple took over the property from Sebastien's parents in 2020.

The family's fields in Tavel and Lirac amount to approx. 10 hectares. Here the wines are produced under the traditional name 'Le Vieux Moulin'. From the fields in the Côtes du Rhône and Côtes du Rhône Villages which include approx. 20 hectares. There are fields in the Gard region with approx. 40 hectares, here the wines are produced under the name 'Le Vieux Lavoir'.

The philosophy they work according to: 
The philosophy at the property is that "a healthy vineyard with beautiful and healthy grapes produces quality wines". That is why we work with permanent tillage in the fields and sustainable cultivation of the more than 15 grape types, where the main emphasis is on Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Carignan and also a number of local varieties for both red, rosé and white wines.