Domaine de Monteillet

Chavanay

Since the 17th century, the Monteillet estate has belonged to the Villard family, whose most famous representative is Louis Hector, Duke of Villard, Marshal of France to Louis XIV (1653-1734).

Patiently, gradually, the ancestors of Stéphane Montez, winegrowers, sailors, coopers, driven by the love of the Rhône and the work of the vine, are buying up the estate's land plot by plot.

A notarial deed of 1741 shows us Michel "master carpenter on the Rhône and cooper" ancestor of Stéphane Montez, buying a vineyard in Monteillet. His descendants, after the Revolution, continued their acquisitions.

Today Stéphane Montez succeeds his father Antoine, who transmitted all his know-how to him.

Thus the Montez plant, vinify, raise and market their wines, on 48 hectares and five appellations.