We, Claire and Olivier Lecomte, are currently the fourth generation working and managing the estate of the Château de Passavant. The estate evolved generation after generation. The history started with Jules Falloux in 1900 who bought the castle with the money earned in his first company. Before his career as a winegrower, he founded, with his brothers, a flourishing company of uprooting and planting vines all over the region, during the phylloxera crisis. He got married with Marie Derouet who possessed vines in Passavant then he started the winery in the castle.

Then, their son Jean took the estate over and married Marie Bouyer. He grew the company and participated to the creation of the Cabernet d’Anjou guild named « Confrérie des Fins Gousiers d’Anjou » to promote the Cabernet d’Anjou in the country.

Their daughter Noëlle Falloux and her husband Jean David, took the estate over in 1965 and built the current cellar in 1975. The producing place changed (from the castle to the cellar) and the production evolved. Noëlle and Jean vinified white and red dry wines, designed for restauration. The vineyard increased from 20 ha to 40 ha. Noëlle and Jean turned the business to professional customers and set up partnerships based on loyalty and trust which are still alive nowadays.