Domaine la Florane represented the wines made from vines in Visan, on land handed down by the family of Marie-Pierre Fabre. The vines in Saint-Maurice, meanwhile, bore the name of Domaine de l’Échevin. Guillaume de Rouville, a family ancestor who was mayor of Lyon in 1586, owned land in the Rhône Valley, back when silk ruled supreme. He inspired the name Domaine de l’Échevin, created by François Fabre in the 1990s. In 2001, the family’s two estates began using the same, specially-built vat room / cellar, but each estate kept its name. Then in 2019, they were united at last. The cuvée names are unchanged: Échevin and Guillaume de Rouville are still used for the wines from the Saint-Maurice appellation. Three generations of vignerons, two terroirs, but the same family spirit. And a shared philosophy that now underpins a single identity. At 400 metres altitude. The locality « Olagnon » north-facing soils impart great minerality to the grapes.The grapes, with their stems, are gravity-fed into a truncated-cone wood vat, specially designed for the quantity of grapes used for this cuvée.The wines are aged in one of two types of barrel: demi-muids and foudres. In total, ageing lasts 18 months on average.This wine, made with grapes from the best plots, is a deep crimson. Its voluptuous and sensual character evokes the terroir, exuding blackberry and herby garrigue flavours.