Domain Yann Chave is one of the pioneers of Northern Rhone winemaking. It has a long history. It can be followed back to the arrival in Ampuis of Alexandre Yasman from Champagne at the end of the 19th century. Alexander took a job as a chef at Château d’Ampuis and showing a keen interest in the local wine, soon got an adjacent vineyard on the site where Les Moutonnes is today. He soon began bottling his own wine and introduced it to the 1909 Concours Agricole in Paris where it won medals. Although the wines of this domain were popular from the very start, it was Alexander’s son Georges and then grandson Robert who joined his father in 1960 that made Yasman is one of the great dynasties of Côte-Roti.

Father and son worked together until Georges' half-century career came to the end when he died at the age of 83 in 1987. Robert continued to make the reputation of the domain without changing anything. He once told in the interview to Remington Norman, "I do what Grandpa does." Robert not only save the tendency to vinify individual plots. He also, resisted the tendency of combing. But finally, in 1996 he relented and bought a destemmer. Unfortunately, during a hunting trip in 1999, Robert Yasman was hit and killed by a car. His son Patrick became a winemaker. Otherwise, with a little preparation he produced a beautiful 1999 Côte Rôtie. Patrick continues to make wine just like his father. The only main difference is that today the grapes are completely destemmed.