About the Team
Marjorie Gallet was born in Grenoble and grew up in the Northern Rhône. She spent her childhood and teenage years surrounded by Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie vineyards, and with parents who loved wine. She too soon developed a passion for wine which vied for dominance alongside her other love – horses.
Stéphane was born in Normandy and met Marjorie at the agronomy school in Montpellier, where at the school’s horse club their relationship was sealed.
In the holidays the couple would on go vacation to the Roussillon, and it was here that they began to understand the potential of Roussillon vines, with the old-vine Carignan impressing Marjorie in particular.
Marjorie then apprenticed at Domaine Gauby, and it was here that she learned about the “philosophy of wine, beyond science” from the famous, eponymous vigneron, Gérard Gauby. Stéphane apprenticed at Cuilleron and Les Vins de Vienne, after which he worked at an equally famous domaine in Mas Amiel.
Marjorie subsequently founded Le Roc des Anges in 2001 and was joined by Stéphane in 2008. The name, meaning ‘Rock of the Angels’, was inspired by an old Carignan vineyard on the domaine, planted on a vein of quartz surrounded by black schist in a lieu-dit called ‘Roc Blanc’. This vineyard reminded Marjorie of Côte-Rôtie, her home, and an angel was chosen to represent the vein of quartz, hence ‘Roc des Anges’.
