Domaine la Monardiere Vaqueyras Les 2 Monardes 2023 Esthers America's smallest AVA

America's smallest AVA

with soft tannins and notes of lifted blackberries

while still carrying the structural backbone to age for a generation

cut-glass precision that is hard to find elsewhere in the village

Traditional German lager brewing executed with Pacific Northwest care

Domaine la Monardiere Vaqueyras Les 2 Monardes 2023 Esthers America's smallest AVAMonarde is the French name for bee balm, the scruffy purple wildflower that grows wild across the southern Rhone, and this is the wine the estate named after itself. The Vache family bought La Monardiere in 1987, converted to organic farming in 2000 and got certified in 2010, which puts them years ahead of most of Vaqueyras. This is 70% Grenache and 30% Syrah off forty year old vines, hand harvested, fermented with native yeasts in concrete, aged in