Domaine de Villeneuve is located a few kilometers south of the municipality of Orange, in the Rhone Valley, at the northern end of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation. The Domaine was purchased in 1993 by Roy de Blicquy and the Wallut family who recovered old vineyards and began the conversion to biodynamic agriculture in 1998. Since 2004 the owner has been Stanislas Wallut, who is personally responsible for the winemaking. The cellar is completely underground on 2 levels at more than 6 meters deep with 2 of the 4 sides built with large 7.5-ton blocks of Gard stone: in this way, in addition to the advantage of naturally regulating temperature and humidity, the grapes are processed by gravity (whether whole, destemmed or crushed) avoiding the use of pumps. The cuverie has only concrete tanks ideal for insulation in a very hot climate like that of the southern Rhone. Stanislas' meticulous work, the application of biodynamic practices in the vineyard, the ancient sapling plants (which can reach up to a hundred years old) as well as the gentle (destemming with very light pressing) and non-invasive (delicate pumping over without extraction, performed only to encourage the infusion of skins and seeds) processing of the grapes translate into wines of incredible finesse and elegance, capable of surprising with their purity and complexity and therefore exactly the opposite of the majority of Chateauneuf-du-Pape wines, which are dedicated to great extraction and concentration.
Domaine de Villeneuve is located a few kilometers south of the municipality of Orange, in the Rhone Valley, at the northern end of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation. The Domaine was purchased in 1993 by Roy de Blicquy and the Wallut family who recovered old vineyards and began the conversion to biodynamic agriculture in 1998. Since 2004 the owner has been Stanislas Wallut, who is personally responsible for the winemaking. The cellar is completely underground on 2 levels at more than 6 meters deep with 2 of the 4 sides built with large 7.5-ton blocks of Gard stone: in this way, in addition to the advantage of naturally regulating temperature and humidity, the grapes are processed by gravity (whether whole, destemmed or crushed) avoiding the use of pumps. The cuverie has only concrete tanks ideal for insulation in a very hot climate like that of the southern Rhone. Stanislas' meticulous work, the application of biodynamic practices in the vineyard, the ancient sapling plants (which can reach up to a hundred years old) as well as the gentle (destemming with very light pressing) and non-invasive (delicate pumping over without extraction, performed only to encourage the infusion of skins and seeds) processing of the grapes translate into wines of incredible finesse and elegance, capable of surprising with their purity and complexity and therefore exactly the opposite of the majority of Chateauneuf-du-Pape wines, which are dedicated to great extraction and concentration.