The wine is made using whole bunches and semi-carbonic maceration, with no added yeast, no added sulphur dioxide (apart from a little at bottling) and extremely gentle extraction. Aged for eight months in concrete tanks and bottled unfined and unfiltered.

Passot’s family are no strangers to the region: her great-grandfather planted vines here in the 1940s and her parents established the domaine she now runs. After growing up on the estate, Pauline had a brief sojourn from Chiroubles with stints as a sommelier in Michelin starred restaurants, followed by a vintage with Seresin in New Zealand, before returning to her Beaujolais roots and studying in Beaune. In 2018 she took over the day-to-day running of the family domaine, which consists of 7.7 ha in Chiroubles, 0.8 ha in Morgon and just half a hectare in Fleurie. All are farmed organically (certification is imminent) with some trials in biodynamics.