Domaine Isabel Ferrando

Domaine Isabel Ferrando was created by Isabel Ferrando. She was born in Carpentras about 15 kilometres from Châteauneuf du Pape. Before getting involved in wine making she spent ten years working as a banker in Nîmes in the finance department which gave her the opportunity to be in contact with numerous local winemakers from the Rhône Valley. She admired them for their work, but learnt how not to go bankrupt running a Domaine having to deal wi...

In 2004, Isabel purchased her first parcel to creat Domaine Isabel Ferrando. The parcel is located to the west of the village in the area known as "Colombis", it represents 1.3 hectare planted with 60 year old Grenache Noir vines. The parcel's soil composition is sandy-clay with limestone. The following years, two more parcels were added to produce the wine: “Les Roues” a 1.2 hectare parcel purchased in 2005 and “Cristia” representing 1.1 hect...

The year 2009 was a turning point for Isabel. A new cellar was built at Domaine Saint Préfert/Isabel Ferrando to increase the storage space and to further improve the wine making conditions to enable each parcel to be treated individually. She also started the estate’s conversion to organic farming. Isabel likes to try new things and evolve in winemaking and 2009 also marked a change in her approach as a winemaker. Normally Isabel would destem...

The town of Châteauneuf is on a hillside with the surrounding vineyards set on a rolling landscape and a large plateau that starts west of the lieu-dit “Mont-Redon” (altitude 119m), going eastward to its highest point in Pied Long (altitude 128m) and finishing southward in the lieu-dit “La Crau” (altitude 110m). The terroir of Châteauneuf du pape was mainly structured during the geological Tertiary and early Quaternary periods. To generalize, ...