Louis Bernard

Louis Bernard, now based in Gigondas, was founded in 1976 in the heart of the Rhône valley, the home of Côtes-du-Rhône and many legendary wines. With an inventive and unconventional approach based on quality-oriented partnerships, Louis Bernard brings together wine properties with a common ambition: to get the best from their vines and their expertise in order to produce great wines.

Nurtured by the sun and the Mistral winds, the Rhône Valley offers a fascinating diversity of landscapes, terroirs and wines.

The vineyards of the RhôneValley are among the oldest in France; they follow the path of the Rhône and benefit from an extraordinary climate and soil.

Vines have been cultivated here since antiquity, but it was with the arrival of the Popes in Avignon in the 14th century that the vineyards of the Rhône b...

In order to produce full-bodied, vigorous wines with fruity and spicy flavours, we chose Grenache as our main grape. This enables us to make voluptuous, concentrated, supple, generous wines which express the full richness of their terroir and are an invitation to conviviality and culinary delights. 

Linking the past to the present, the label on our bottles has a classic ogival arch shape, recalling a stained glass window, and the illum...

The terroirs of the Rhône valley are well-suited to minimise the use of pesticide and to develop organic methods.  That was the base of our environmental philosophy. We have adopted this way of working across the board, embracing corporate social responsibility within the company through water recovery, recycling of paper and optimisation of resources used. We also incorporate eco-design in the production of our wines, for example by introduci...