Château La Dournie

The Étienne family bought the estate in 1870, and since then it has passed from mother to daughter, generation after generation. That is no small detail: in European wine, inheritance almost always runs from father to son, and here it has run the other way for a century and a half. Véronique Étienne heads it today.

It lies in Saint-Chinian, in the south of the Hérault, a few kilometres north-west of Béziers. Forty-five hectares of vines on schist soils, certified organic.

Véronique belongs to Les Vinifilles, the association of women winegrowers of Occitanie.