To say Katie Jones looks for vineyards no-one else wants would only be a slight exaggeration. Most other growers in the area wouldn’t be interested in her modest twelve hectares of vines spread across vineyards in Maury (her first), Paziols and Tuchan. The sites are too small, too remote, too steep and too much hard work. She looks for low yields with high quality, and the rather poor, sloping ground that the very old, traditional vines cling to gives her just that. It means most of the work including harvesting has to be done by hand, but the results are more than worth the toil. The soils for this cuvée are made up of large limestone rounded stones known as ‘poudingues’ and the vineyard is sheltered from the strong north wind by tall hedgerows of box wood and olive trees. The grapes for this special wine are grown in one this one small vineyard in the village of Tuchan, where the Languedoc meets the Roussillon. The vines were originally sourced from Cote Rotie. An electric fence surrounds the vineyards to dissuade pesky wild boars from feasting on the sweet, ripe grapes as harvest approaches.