Domaine de Dionysos

Domaine de Dionysos traces its roots back to 1720, when the Farjon family fled the plague in Marseille and settled in the hills north of Uchaux. The hamlet they founded still carries their name today, "Les Farjon," and it is here, on the Massif d'Uchaux in the northern reaches of the southern Rhône, that seven generations of the family have tended vines ever since.

The estate took its current name in 1974, when Robert Farjon christened the property Dionysos as a nod to the Greek god of wine and the vine. His son André spent three decades expanding and refining the domaine before handing the reins to his own son, Benjamin, a trained oenologist who took over in 2011 alongside his brother-in-law, Michel Berger.

Under Benjamin's stewardship, the estate earned organic certification through Ecocert in 2011, and today the family farms 55 hectares spread across four appellations: Cairanne, Côtes du Rhône Villages Massif d'Uchaux, Côtes du Rhône, and IGP Vaucluse. That patchwork of terroir, from rolled galet stones to clay-limestone slopes, gives Benjamin a wide palette to work with. He leans on the classic grapes of the southern Rhône: Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre, and Carignan for the reds, Viognier, Roussanne, and Marsanne for the whites.

The result is a range of honest, terroir-driven wines that honour the Farjon family's centuries-old connection to this corner of the Vaucluse, while showing Benjamin's careful, contemporary hand in the cellar.