Domaine Jones maintains a tiny vineyard with only 30 acres of vines. The soils are comprised of limestone and schist. 2017 Carignan Gris was sourced from the domaine’s small Carignan Gris vineyard which lies just outside the village of Tuchan where her winemaking cave is located in an old steam locomotive shed. There are only 12 acres of Carignan Gris vines in all of France. Katie Jones, founder of Domaine Jones, describes her vineyards and the experience of farming the rare Carignan Gris vines as follows: "The sites are too small, too remote, and too much hard work. Exactly the way I like them! I’m looking for low yields with high quality, and the rather poor, sloping ground that the very old, traditional vines cling to gives me just that. Most of the work, including harvesting, has to be done by hand. But the results are more than worth the toil. And you can always take the occasional break, sit on one of the dry stone walls under an olive tree and take in the view." “Carignan Gris is a pain in the ‘derriere’ for a winemaker as it is a very late ripener. It actually ripens after all the reds and still comes in at a lower alcohol. I imagine this is why most of it has been ripped up. In our first vintage with this grape we thought that it was never going to ripen. We finally picked it mid-October.”