The Gourmets’s Almanac published in 1808, told about TAVEL :
"One bottle of this wine is more effective on the guests’s mood than four bottles of Bordeaux or Bourgogne!!! "
The different plots of Domaine LAFOND Roc-Epine vineyard are situated on the « terroir » of Tavel Appellation. The soil and subsoil of these 21 plots are very different, each of them giving its own particularities. The assembling of these different « terroirs » gives an harmonious and balancedTavel wine.
According to the possibilities of the soil, the wine grower chooses the vine plant. The great variety of « terroirs » favours the exploitation of potential qualities of each vine plant. And it is certainly what gives the complexity of Lafond wines. For the wine grower, the choice of the characteristics, of the strength, of the concentration and of the wine’s flavours which he wants to obtain, begins from this moment.
At the Domaine Lafond, our purpose is to increase the proportion of Syrah plants on clayey, chalky and warm « terroirs ». These soils will highlight the qualities of the vine plant.
