The beginning of the story starts in the sun-drenched hills of the Rhone Valley, in 1946. Jean Orëns Ferraton established vineyards throughout the Rhone, producing table wines and Cotes du Rhone blends. His son Michel inherited his passion, and after inheriting the Maison, took it in a new direction. Michel's focus was on the northern Rhone appellations of Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage and Saint-Joseph. Through aquisition of vineyards in these regions, Ferraton Pere et Fils began to produce wines of quality and distinction. They enlisted the help of close friend and 'Rhone Royalty,' Michel Chapoutier, who brought his experience and know-how to the operation. Then in 1998, the vineyards were converted to organic viticulture. Today, the Maison is run by Samuel Ferraton, the fourth generation of the family. Samuel is very much an artisan winemaker, although he still uses some modern techniques that he has learned through working with the Chapoutiers. Consequently, the wines are a marvellous marriage of the old and the new, displaying good structure and well-defined fruit characters, allied with very judicious and limited use of new oak. The wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered.
