The estate
Since 1928, four hectares and then fifteen on the stony Cérinhac hillsides. From Étienne's pickaxe to Clémence's amphorae, the work has grown finer — the land itself has not moved.
Lineage
1928
Étienne Grézeau
The cooper
A former cooper in Cérinhac, Étienne buys four hectares of stony hillside that the local farmers judge “too hard for barley, too dry for wheat”. He plants Carignan, Aramon and Grenache. The first harvest, in 1932, gives a sturdy wine, sold by the barrel to the cafés of Béziers.
1964
Henri Grézeau
The pragmatist
Étienne's son takes over after the war. A pragmatic winegrower, he buys the neighbouring plots and grows the estate to twelve hectares. He brings in some machinery, makes his wine in concrete vats and sends his grapes to the cooperative in the hard years. A solid period, without a signature — but the vineyard grows and holds its ground.
2014
Clémence Grézeau
The biodynamic
Étienne's granddaughter, trained in Bordeaux and then in Burgundy, Clémence takes the reins. She renames the estate after the russet stony ground that defines its terroir, pulls up the ageing Carignan to replant Syrah and Mourvèdre, and buys three hectares of Rolle on the higher ground. Conversion to biodynamic farming complete. Demeter in 2022.
Today
Fifteen hectares
Clémence makes and blends the wines. Tristan, her partner, works the vines. Two local winegrowers, Jérôme and Miloud, all year round. Harvest by hand. Fifteen hectares, not one more — a decision, not a constraint.
Manifesto
Fifteen hectares.
Not one more.
Picked by hand.
Native yeasts.
Minimal sulphur.
A manifesto fits in five lines. The rest you see in the bottles, taste in the glass and find in the cellar — not in a sales brochure.
Craft
Each cuvée finds its vessel. No dogma — raw concrete for the fruit-led reds, wood for the single-plot wines, terracotta for the rare whites.
For the young reds, for fruit. Steady temperature, no added aroma.
600-litre French oak. For the single-plot wines. Ageing from 9 to 24 months.
Terracotta. For our rare Rolle. Fifteen hundred bottles a year.
Only a light filtration through gauze. Minimal sulphur, at bottling.
Certification
Biodynamic farming, owned but quiet. No preaching, no mysticism — just one conviction: the vine, the soil and the cellar make up a single living whole. We look after them, in that order.
My grandfather planted what nobody wanted to see grow any more. My father steadied what nobody knew how to keep. I pass on what I have understood: the land does not need us, it tolerates us.
— Clémence Grézeau
Winegrower, third generation
Visit
A tasting led by Clémence or Tristan, in the vaulted cellar. Two hours, twelve wines by the glass.
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