Famille Quiot

Destemmed before the cellar work begins

Total destemming comes before the twice-daily reassembly in concrete at Famille Quiot in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where Florence Quiot; Jean-Baptiste Quiot work as winemaker. Their station is not a single cuve or one parcel, but a family domaine with properties across the Southern Rhône Valley and Provence. The house dates its winemaking history to 1748, and Florence and Jean-Baptiste carry the line as the 13th generation. That lineage gives the role a broad shape: owner, CEO, operator, and keeper of a name that still has to make decisions in the cellar, in the vineyard, and across several domains.

They speak of the wines in direct terms: “Quiot wines are full of terroir, tradition, and elegant aromas. We have great respect for our ancestors and the work they did. Wine is a global sector full of passion.” The sentence holds the house’s working tension. Terroir comes first, then inheritance, then the market beyond the village. At Famille Quiot, continuity is not treated as a framed story on the wall. It is the daily discipline of keeping each property legible while the business remains family held.

Concrete vats and a long Rhône extraction

The program here stays close to the traditional Southern Rhône grammar. Grenache Noir, Syrah, Mourvèdre, Counoise, and Cinsault anchor the red work, with Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC as the local spine and Provence extending the family’s range beyond the village. The vineyards sit around Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where fluvial sand, rolled pebbles, alluvium, and clay-limestone slopes give the cellar several registers to work from. The point is not uniformity. Each domain keeps its own identity, history, and aromatic profile.

In the cellar, the method is plain and physical: total destemming, reassembly twice a day, then vatting for 15 to 21 days in concrete vats. Aging runs for 18 months in vats and barrels, with 15% in barrel. Those figures matter because they describe touch, extraction, and patience without ornament. Concrete keeps the work close to fruit and structure; the smaller barrel portion gives the wine another register without turning the method into a barrel program. The family does not present the estate as a small single-parcel cellar. It is a multi-estate Southern Rhône and Provence domaine, and the craft lies in holding that scale without flattening the differences between places.

The village, the cellar, the pebbles

On Avenue Baron Leroy, the house keeps the feel of a working Châteauneuf-du-Pape address rather than a staged room. The tasting room and traditional cellar sit close to the village’s own wine traffic, with the vineyards spread around it and the appellation underfoot. Conversation stays at cellar volume. The material of the place is practical: concrete, barrels, bottles, maps of exposure and soil, the quiet weight of rolled pebbles carried into the glass through Grenache and its companions.

Visitors encounter Rhône and Provence wines through tastings, cellar visits, and vineyard tours, but the useful texture is bench-side rather than theatrical. The talk returns to terroir, to the different properties, to why a slope behaves differently from an alluvial plain. If there is a next move to hold in view, it is the continued transfer of this scale through Florence and Jean-Baptiste’s hands. The family name remains attached to Avenue Baron Leroy.