Gourmet products local specialties and wines Saint-Marcel-D'Ardèche

Wine is a mole on the cheek of intelligence (Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, ^11th century). The website gives the recipe straight away! The estate has been in the Thibon family since 1670, when it was converted from a hunting lodge and gentilhommière into a peasant farm. Today, the vineyard is run by Hélène using organic and biodynamic methods, with the help of a draught horse. We love her joie de vivre and her wines for pleasure, Vin de Pétanque, which you can drink with friends without any fuss, Bout d'Z*n. We fall under his spell.

This estate has been handed down from father to son and father to daughter since 1422! Louis Saladin and his daughters represent the ^19th and ^20th generations of winegrowers on this Ardèche site. What could be better? The 18-hectare estate boasts 13 hand-harvested grape varieties, grown and brought to life organically. The result is a range of very interesting natural wines (Côtes-du-Rhône or Vin de Pays), offered in all three colors, a total of seven bottles: five reds, one rosé and one white.