Le Clos du Caillou Cotes du Rhone Le Caillou Rouge

About the winery:

The Clos du Caillou was founded in 1895 when Élie Dussaud settled there and created an old cellar. It started as a hunting preserve and this history ironically led to its exclusion from the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation upon its creation in the 1930’s. When the government experts arrived at the Clos in 1936 to survey the land for its inclusion in the new appellation, they were met with armed caretakers telling them they were not welcome! This is the reason for the seemingly inexplicable blank spot in the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation map. The Clos du Caillou gives us some of the most spectacular terroir  classified as simply Côtes-du-Rhône, and the wines which hail from this clos are anything but simple in their complexity and depth.