Escaravailles means scarab, or beetle, in Occitan, the language of Provinçal France. It’s also what they called the black-clad Catholic monks of the southern Rhône. So, that’s what Jean-Louis Ferran named his domaine in 1953. He purchased several ideally placed hillside parcels of vines in the Rasteau, Cairanne and Roaix regions of Côtes-du-Rhône. The company practises organic and sustainable viticulture, and all work on the estate to done by hand on vines ranging from 30 to 60 years old.