Domaine La Monardière is a family estate in the Southern Rhône, producing alluring wines with unique authenticity that are true to the terroir in which the vineyards are grown. In a region that is home to many producers who sell their grapes, Domaine La Monardière focuses on producing wines strictly from their estate-grown grapes while not selling any of the grapes to outside producers. The estate was founded in 1987 by Martine and Christian Vache, and dedicated to the the purity of the land, they set out to produce honest wines of the AOC. They strictly use natural farming practices, gaining full organic certification in 2010, though having implemented organic practices since as early as 2000. The forty year old Grenache (70%) and Syrah (30%) vineyards from which this wine is made are planted in chalky grit and say clay soils, producing very low yields of concentrated fruit. The grapes are harvested manually, destemmed, and then strictly fermented with only native yeasts, before being aged for one year in tanks in a combination of tanks and barrels. The wine is not fined or filtered before being bottled, which perseveres the natural purity of the wine in its most sincere form.