Welcome
to the world of SAS Les Domaines Auriol

Our company was launched in March '95. Its foundation are a comprehensive understanding of our region along with the work of research, investigation and repeated tastings. Thus we are able to put together or select a particular wine to correspond to the profile laid down by our customers within an agreed economic framework.

We carry out this work on ordinary table wines of character, vins de pays in blends or as varietals, but also for the region's AOC wines which are the real core of our know-how.

Our philosophy :
Reinventing craftmanship on an industrial scale

The directors have devized a "cellular" form for the company, by which priority is given to enhancing skills and competence and to making each unit a complement to the others.

Family-owned estates, flagbearers and nucleus of the company
Their wines have individual, highly personalized identities. They correspond to a "first growth" approach and ensure that SAS Les Domaines Auriol enjoys a position among fine wines and well-crafted brands. Company wines at this level now have an established international reputation.

Château Saint-Auriol
40 hectares - Lagrasse terroir - Corbières

Château Salvagnac
8 hectares - Boutenac Terroir - Corbières

Domaine Montmija
25 hectares - Organically grown - Corbières

Château Cicéron
20 hectares Lagrasse terroir - Corbières

The wineries are partners of Les Domaines Auriol

  • They provide a range that covers the region, reflects the region's internal hierarchy in wines and is complete. Such wines are marketed under our partner's own brand names (Château Carbonac, Domaine du Chapitre ...), or under our own (Fontauriol, Belle Occitane des Vins ....).
  • Some of these wines are vinified and matured to serve as a quality backup, ensuring product consistency when used in blendings.
  • We also operate as a normal wine dealer, selecting tanks across different wineries and estates for inclusion in our blends. In this way prices remain competitive and a wide base is available for sourcing.
  • A contract agreement with several winegrowers is presently being finalized to develop a range of personalized, barrel-aged wines reflecting a given terroir. This range will be of the same quality as the wines from our family-owned estates and will be a complement to them.
     

Technical organization an approach that is state-of-the-art, reliable nuisance-free

Certification of Les Domaines Auriol Iso 9001 vs 2000

Vinification & Maturing

  • The wines of the family estates are vinfied, matured and bottled in our estate wineries.
  • The wines we acquire as wine traders are vinified or selected by our enologists and matured on the premises of our partners (independent estates or cooperative wineries) under the supervision of the cellarmasters. 

Blending and making up

  • The wines, blended and fined/filtered in the cellars to ensure that quality remains consistent, provide the selected cuvées that come from assorted production areas.

Bottling

  • After fining/filtering, the wines go to the bottling plants. The bottling lines can handle the following bottles sizes : 18.7cl, 25cl, 37,5 cl, 75cl, 100cl and 50cl, as well as bag-in-box pouches.
Logistics and stocks

The Gaujac premises include the sales offices.

The Team of Les Domaines Auriol
motivation allied to interlocking know-how


 

Claude VIALADE Chief Executive Officer

The S.A.S Les Domaines Auriol project was her idea. She is responsible for overall product strategy within the company's ethos, for commercial development and for relations with the partner wineries.

Sandra BINARD
Executive secretary

Service Commercial

Emmanuel MONTES
Export Manager

Claude Vialade
Europe Nord and Monopoly

Anne-Laure CHARTRON
Est Europe Commercial

Eric ROBERT
France Commercial

Administration des ventes et assistantes commerciales

Mariya DUBERNET
 Sales department

Production

Georges PAULI
Technical director

Patricia CANTEGREL
Wine buyer, oeunologist


Quality control, oeunologist

Christian SANCHEZ
Administrative secretary

Logistique

Carol DALICHOUX
Buyer and logistic manager
(bottling centers)

Gérald TAUNAY
Warehouse, expedition

Gestion et Administration

Patrick PROUDHOM
Administration
and Finance

Carole MAHOUX MARTINOT
Administration and accounts

Monique AZAM
Reception

"A flexible, pragmatic approach tuned
in to the region and to our customers.
Loyal to each wine, loyal to our company ethos"

Product communication allows pertinent approach to our brands

"Saint-Auriol" & "Charles Cicéron"
An exclusive brand of appellation and varietal wines monitored from start to finish by Domaines Auriol oenologists.

Organic Wines

We are domains and grape-varieties gathering with the organic certification

"La Belle Occitane des Vins"

Les Belles du Sud are historic brand of Les Domaines Auriol

"Les Vignerons des Coteaux Sud"

For retail brands, or for special blends for a particular client.

"New concept"

"Wild Frog": France takes on the New World : she's it a winner

"Cépage et monument":
Her great buildings make France a tourist's dream destination. So, match wine with tourism.

"Slow and easy":
Take it easy, it's here to be enjoyed

"Châteaux et Domaines : South Appellations"

Philippe Courrian Paysage ses vignes
avec une sensibilité d'artiste.
Minervois-La Livinière.
La somptueuse syrah des frères Ournac.
Christine Simon est la reine
du Muscat à Petit Grain

 

EVOLUTION CA 1995-2007