Françoise Le Calvez manages Château Coupe Roses with a fervor and pride that can only come from an ability to point to 12 generations of her family (dating back to 1614) having lived in this corner of the Languedoc. In 2008, Françoise and her husband, Pascal, purchased 15 acres of vineyards in Le Petit Causse that are part of the Minervois cru of La Livinière. With additional vines in Le Causse (a causse, in case you were wondering, refers to an enormous outcropping of exposed rock — in this case, limestone — that supports little more than garrigue and the occasional olive tree and vine), most of Coupe Roses’ vineyards are on the plateau above the cliff. These vines seem to spring straight from the rock in this arid, windswept place of scrub and calcified limestone. And at 750 to 1,350 feet above sea level, their vineyards are the two highest elevation sites in the entire Minervois appellation. Organic certified since 2013 (and increasingly biodynamic), Françoise, Pascal, and their son (Matthias, oenologist here) and daughter (Sarah) work together to produce fresh, high-toned wines that undeniably infused with a sense of the wild, mountainous region from which they hail.