The story of Clos du Gravillas starts with local Languedoc lass, Nicole, meeting her future husband, a boy-from-not-so-next-door, John Bojanowski, of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1996 (auspiciously, the same year Metrovino was born) they founded Clos du Gravillas in Saint-Jean de Minervois. Nicole and John are masters of spicy, Mediterranean reds (though they are rather skilled at crafting characterful whites as well). It was indeed their old vine Carignan that brought Clos du Gravillas and Metrovino together more than 15 years ago.