Domaine de la Méreuille lies in the Quartier du Grès in Orange, on the left bank of the Rhône between Orange and Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Its name means “the marvel” in Provençal.
After the war, Marcel Bouyer turned the property towards market gardening and vines; in 1970 his son Michel and his wife chose to focus on wine, then enlarged the estate in 1980 and began bottling under the name “La Méreuille”. Today Philippe Granger runs the estate with sustainable farming (agriculture raisonnée).
The vines, on average around 70 years old, grow on clay-limestone soils covered with rounded pebbles, on the slopes of the Mont-Redon and Cabrières plateaus. Alongside Châteauneuf-du-Pape, made mostly from old Grenache, the estate produces Côtes-du-Rhône and Côtes-du-Rhône Villages.