11/02/2026
Terroirs de Provence — A W**e’s Story
Domaine Hauvette, Alpilles 🍇
Some landscapes are inherited. This one was chosen.
In 1980, Dominique Hauvette came to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence for a month. She stayed. At the foot of the Alpilles she raised Arabian horses, painted houses, and looked across at two hectares of vines. In 1988 those vines became hers — bought as a neighbor prepared to retire. Éloi Dürrbach, of nearby Trévallon, was among those who helped her begin. Her first w**e followed in 1989. At forty-four she returned to study, and became an oenologist.
The domaine has been farmed biodynamically, and certified, since 2003. Limestone, sun, and the mistral set the pace. From the 2018 vintage the w**es have been bottled solely as IGP Alpilles — a deliberate step aside from the appellation, in favor of a freer reading of the place. Reds lead: Cinsault, Grenache, Syrah, Carignan, and Cabernet Sauvignon. Whites, rarer, draw on Roussanne, Marsanne, and Clairette. Much of the élevage happens in natural concrete eggs; some w**es rest in foudre or barrel. These are not w**es polished into silence. They are meant to live.
Cornaline gathers Grenache, Syrah, and Cabernet — dark fruit, garrigue, a deeper structure. Améthyste answers with Cinsault at its center: finer, floral, almost saline. On the label, a cypress recalls Van Gogh’s Saint-Rémy. In 2020, La Revue du vin de France named her W**emaker of the Year.
This is Provence spoken from the north face of the Alpilles: luminous, exacting, and quietly alive.
Tonight, pour a glass from our cellar of 3,000+ references and taste a landscape she refused to leave.
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