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One of the Rhône Valley's oldest families of vignerons, the Garons trace their roots in Ampuis to 1485. After generations of farming and selling grapes, Jean-François and Carmen Garon began reclaiming the family's abandoned Côte-Rôtie terraces during the 1980s, replanting historic vineyards before bottling their first estate wines in 1995. After studying viticulture and oenology, their sons, Kévin and Fabien, joined the domaine in 2000 and steadily expanded the estate from just two hectares to more than twenty hectares under vine and contract. Today, the family farms highly coveted, steep granite, gneiss and schist terraces in Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph, Crozes-Hermitage, Hermitage and Seyssuel. Kévin's objective is balance above all else: ripe fruit without excess, silky tannins, freshness, and long, linear palates that reflect each vineyard site and the growing season. Partial whole-cluster fermentation, gentle extraction on the reds, and restrained use of new oak allow each vineyard and appellation to retain its own voice.

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