Winery Overview
No longer inspired in their former vocations, Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Daziano decided to follow their shared passion in 2007 when they took over the 35-acre vineyard and farm of Isabelle’s family. Nestled in a forested plane amid the Massif des Maures mountains, Domaine de la Fouquette sits in the heart of the Côtes de Provence appellation.
With the skillful guidance of consulting oenologist Bruno Tringali, Jean-Pierre established an environmentally friendly, but labor-intensive regimen in the vineyard that includes green harvesting in early summer to limit yields, working the soil without use of chemicals, and harvesting by hand. The domaine received its organic certification from Ecocert with the 2013 vintage. The Domaine de la Fouquette aux Mayons landscape is made up of umbrella pines, cork oaks and chestnut groves in which nearly 180 protected species coexist. The vineyard is classified in Complementary Geographical Denomination (DGC) of the AOP (Protected Designation of Origin) Côtes de Provence. A Complementary Geographical Denomination is a mention attributed by the INAO (National Institute of Origins and Qualities) to wines produced in part of the territory of an AOC. Notre-Dame des Anges is the name of the DGC in reference to the highest point of the Massif des Maures visible from all over the territory.
Isabelle is the third generation to work at the family winery. In the cellar, her philosophy is minimal intervention. In addition to having final say in the cellar, Isabelle assists her parents with Fouquette’s charming auberge. She and her mother entertain tourists at the 45-seat farmhouse restaurant with traditional Provençal recipes handed down from grand-mère and made only with locally grown or raised products.
Fouquette’s Rosée d’Aurore, named for the Jean Pierre Daziano’s daughter, is comprised of the classic Provence cépages Grenache and Cinsault, and accented with the white variety, Rolle (Vermentino).