Domaine du Daley

Domaine du Daley – Fleuron de Villette, a story of families and tradition since 1392

The oldest documents date back to 1392, with a deed of gift of a vineyard located in Daley by a certain Gérard Mistralis to the Chapitre of Saint-Nicolas in Freiburg.  The document is proof of grape cultivation on this location more than 600 years ago.For more than five centuries, the Domaine du Daley belonged to the Chapitre of Saint Nicolas in Freiburg.  ...

All of our vines are grown sustainably. We work the soil in the winter and proceed with natural cover planting between the rows of vines in the summer. The vines are trained in the gobelet style, cordon permament style or the Guyot style depending on the variety and plot. Bud pruning, leaf-thinning and harvesting are done manually due to the steeply sloping terrain that most of our vines are grown on. The grapes are transported in small crates...

All the work on the vines is carried out by hand

Each vintage can be different depending on the climate of that year. So for example, every year, we adapt both in the vineyard and in the cellar when preparing our wines. Minimum spraying of the vines depending on rainfall and selective sorting during the grape-harvesting, which is carried out by hand. We harvest grapes “green” in July, which means that we cut a number of bunches in order to ...