Our vineyards
Every wine has its vineyard
Four vineyards between Quart and Saint-Christophe, from 600 to 900 metres. For each: where it is, what grows there, and what the documents tell.
the cru won back from the woodsRovettazRovettaz is our largest cru: almost six hectares in Quart, between 600 and 700 metres, facing south and south-west.
grandfather Dauphin’s vineyardTzeriatTzeriat is our oldest vineyard, planted by grandfather Dauphin in the 1960s, and our highest.
the vineyard by the church of Saint-ChristopheMerlettaMerletta is a historic vineyard next to the church of Saint-Christophe.
where it all beganCretonCreton is where the winery was born.Climate, measured in the vineyard
Rovettaz since 2011
Among the rows of Rovettaz stands an agrometeorological station of the regional Centro Funzionale: it measures temperature, rain, humidity, wind, sunshine and leaf wetness. We have sixteen vintages of data. The warmth useful to the vine changes a lot from year to year; what really grows is the number of scorching days, while summer rain falls.
- 2026 is the warmest vintage since the station began measuring: Huglin index 2,643, against the previous record of 2,357 in 2022.
- Days above 32 °C: 6 a year on average until 2021, 14 from 2022 to 2025, 42 in 2026.
- Rain from April to September: 326 mm on average in 2011-2016, 144 mm in 2026, the lowest in the series.
See the data, year by year
| Year | Huglin | Winkler | Days above 32 °C | Rain Apr-Sep (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2233 | 1738 | 5 | 328 |
| 2012 | 2120 | 1656 | 8 | 336 |
| 2013 | 1983 | 1530 | 1 | 437 |
| 2014 | 2028 | 1596 | 4 | 280 |
| 2015 | 2244 | 1706 | 17 | 325 |
| 2016 | 2170 | 1645 | 4 | 250 |
| 2017 | 2251 | 1794 | 9 | 221 |
| 2018 | 1981 | 1534 | 3 | 244 |
| 2019 | 2033 | 1569 | 9 | 276 |
| 2020 | 2110 | 1561 | 6 | 220 |
| 2021 | 1969 | 1466 | 4 | 221 |
| 2022 | 2357 | 1921 | 16 | 192 |
| 2023 | 2184 | 1754 | 17 | 204 |
| 2024 | 2026 | 1575 | 9 | 380 |
| 2025 | 2214 | 1689 | 13 | 330 |
| 2026 | 2643 | 2051 | 42 | 144 |