An atoll wine-growing area

Domaine Dominique Auroy – The Wine of Rangiroa

Wine is an essential ingredient for a successful Christmas dinner. French Polynesia proposes you to taste its Tahitian Wine for the yuletide. Indeed, from 1997 a vineyard located in the Archipelago of Tuamotu produces various wines for the great pleasure of connoisseurs. This extraordinary vineyard is directly established on the white sands of the Rangiroa Atoll.

The adventure began with Mr Dominique AUROY and his then-perceived “mad” project to plant and exploit vineyards in French Polynesia. Starting his adventure in 1992, after a series of trials and research for feasibility in different Polynesian archipelagos. The Rangiroa atoll proved to be the environment most adaptable for a vineyard plantation, mainly due to the absence of plant disease caused by fungus and insects. In 1997, the development started with 3 hectares of vineyard planted on the atoll. The acclimatization and the first grape harvest in 1999 were a great success.

Nowadays, Rangiroa (meaning “the Island with a huge sky” in Paumotu language) is a unique atoll wine-growing area in the world. The vineyard of Rangiroa named “Ampelidacees” is today composed of 10 hectares and offers 3 various white wines and one rose wine. In 2009, the white wine produced in Rangiroa “Blanc du Corail” was rewarded the silver medal during the 15th “Vinalies” an International wine competition in Paris. The wine of Tahiti is now a new Polynesian resource that can be added to the pearl and the tourism.