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La Vigne des Pères
Aymeric Paillard Vineyard
The Winegrower
Aymeric Paillard
Coming from a long line of Champagne winegrowers and merchants, he trained his palate and taste on northern wines, but his professional experience is mainly southern.
From this dichotomy, he retains a preference for finesse and bouquet rather than power and opulence. This is partly why he and his family chose this region in 2011.
A wine region where Syrah excels, straddling the line between the earthy, continental Burgundy and the sunny, maritime Mediterranean. The wines of Saint Joseph and their neighbors are sometimes continental, sometimes southern.
Finally, he chose this region of steep hillsides with a touch of recklessness and madness, but deliberately, a place where the hand reigns supreme, where nothing can be mechanized, and where work takes on its full meaning and nobility, somewhere between art and craft. Here you will therefore find wines that are as natural as possible, sometimes rustic, but always unadulterated.
“I’m not trying to make a great wine, I’m trying to make a wine that’s right. A wine that reflects the place, the moment, and a little bit of me.” — Aymeric Paillard
His approach is that of a craftsman: understanding the soil, observing the natural cycle, working with living things. Every gesture counts. Whether in the vineyard or the cellar, Aymeric acts with the same quiet rigor: intervening as little as possible, but always at the right moment.
His philosophy is based on a simple idea: wine is an honest translation of the place and the year, an encounter between nature and human intuition.
Far from following trends, he claims a form of humility: that of the winemaker who is constantly learning, who doubts, who adjusts, and who moves forward.
His work is a search for sincerity, a quest for harmony between the power of the Rhône and the gentleness of the gesture.
