Brotte

Our winery has been propulsed to the front of the scene with the creation in 1952 of our now emblematic Châteauneuf-du-Pape "La Fiole du Pape", originaly shaped bottle with a unique winemaking style. It is today the leading cuvée of its appellation, unrivaled by any other French producer. Our activity of winemaker was largely developed thanks to early exportations in the 50s. Today, the House is present in 95 countries, on the five continents. Since 1970, in the Brotte Wine Museum in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, renovated in 2014, we welcome 25,000 visitors per year, from all over the world.

In 1991, with the purchase of Château de Bord in Laudun, we became wine growers in Côtes du Rhône Villages and Côtes du Rhône A.O.C.s. This activity has been developed with the addition of two other family estates: Domaine Barville in Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Domaine Grosset in Cairanne. Since 2015, our estates have been granted the Terra Vitis French environmental label, from "the vine to the bottle". Laurent Brotte, grandson of the founder, today runs the House, with his wife and sons. 2,6 millions bottles are produced per year, under the signatures Brotte and Père Anselme La Fiole.

In order to ensure quality, at Domaine Barville we will select our best fruits grape by grape. Sustainable vine culture is applied in all our vineyards. We have the French environmental label Terra Vitis since 2014. We work with Queen nature as its simple servant and not its master. All our estates are hand harvested. As learning is forever richness, our team is seconded by a consultant agronomic engineer and a consultant oenologist, both specialised in the quality development of our Southern Rhône wines.

Technology evolves also and we have recently invested in an « Égreneur », the most qualitative system yet developped to sort our Grenache grapes. It indeed manages to remove the berries from the stalk without damaging the very fragile grenache fruit. An essential processus in ensuring the maturity and freshness of our crop from handpicking in the vineyard all the way to the fermentation in vats. For all our prestige cuvées, bottling is done by gravity and without any filtration. At the end of their maturing stage, these wines are stored in stainless stell vats without the use of any machines. We limit all movement and pumping of our wines in order to prevent oxydation and sudden temperature changes. All in order to preserve the natural immune system of a wine and limit SO2 addition at bottling. This will allow the best expression of our terroirs. We aim to stay as natural as possible in order to ensure the authenticity of our cuvées.