Domaine de Trévallon was never meant to be a wine estate. René Dürrbach, a sculptor and close friend of Picasso, bought the property in 1955 as a family retreat in the wild hills of the Alpilles. His son Eloi walked away from architecture school in Paris in 1973 to plant vines there instead, choosing Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah for the reds and Marsanne and Roussanne for the whites, varieties with no real precedent in the area. The Alpilles massif runs cooler than the Provence that surrounds it, its north-facing limestone slopes moderated by wild garrigue woodland the Dürrbachs have deliberately never cleared for more vines, and that cooler, more Rhône-like climate is what let Eloi grow Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah successfully so far south in the first place, the reason Trévallon's reds are so often compared to claret rather than to their Provençal neighbours. When new appellation rules in 1993 demanded he cut his Cabernet to 20% of the blend, Eloi refused and accepted declassification rather than change the wine. Since his death in 2021, his children Ostiane and Antoine Dürrbach have run the domaine together, Ostiane overseeing the cellar and the estate's commercial life, Antoine the vineyards, continuing the same low-intervention, native-yeast winemaking their father built the estate on.

This release spans three quite different growing seasons for the region. 2016 was dry and sunny, a classic, low-yield Provence summer. 2023 was harder work, a wet spring bringing mildew pressure followed by a run of extreme summer heat. 2024 turned milder again, a wet winter restoring water reserves and a gentler summer widely regarded as a strong year for whites.