Katya, Domaine de Cassagnas

L'impact :

⛰️ Scale: 8 Hectares

🤝 Human Impact: 9-person team

🌱 Philosophy: Certified Organic & Vins Methode Nature

🌳 Biodiversity: Active Agroforestry
Domaine de Cassagnas Vineyard with green leaves and wooden stakes against a mountainous landscape
Six wine bottles in different colors arranged in a row on a white background, with a black circular 'Vin rustode Nature' logo and a green organic certification logo above them.

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Cassagnas | Cuvée spéciale | Bio | Cévennes, France | 6 bouteilles

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Winemaker Katya de Cazenove and her two young daughters in domaine de Cassagnas

L'histoire

After a career in the food industry, I chose in 2020 to return to what matters most. Though originally from elsewhere, moving to the Cévennes was about more than just living here; it was about taking root. I planted 25,000 vines and 240 trees as a testament to that commitment.

Today, the first cuvées of Grenache, Aubun, and Marselan are crafted in a rehabilitated former railway station, serving as a temporary home until a bioclimatic cellar is built in the heart of the vines. When the wind rustles through the leaves today, I like to believe it whispers with my accent. In these lands, I have found much more than a place to work; I have found my home.
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Philosophie

Environmental sustainability and creative freedom guide every gesture. The estate is certified organic, and every grape is harvested by hand. In the cellar, I practice minimal intervention—utilising indigenous yeasts with no fining or filtration—to allow the land to speak for itself.

I view the estate as a vast field of experimentation. As new grape varieties come into production each year, the possibilities expand. This creative energy results in about ten distinct cuvées annually, each one a unique vibration of a specific grape variety and the terroir it inhabits.

Le vignoble : Domaine de Cassagnas

My estate spans 9 hectares at the foot of the Cévennes mountains, with a main 7-hectare plot I've designed as a living ecosystem. Guided by the principles of vitiforestry, I grow 16 diverse grape varieties—including Assyrtiko, Chenin, Verdelho, and Saperavi—interspersed with 240 trees, including olives, apples, and oaks.

Between the vine rows, trained in the traditional gobelet style with old-fashioned wooden stakes, I've planted corridors of honey-producing flowers that welcome birds and beneficial insects. My terroir is a complex mosaic: roots delve into ancient marl over limestone or siliceous sandstone carried down from the Cévennes by water and time. Surrounded by woods and streams, my vineyard is a sanctuary for biodiversity, further enriched by the presence of a neighbour’s beehives.