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It is more than 10 years since Magali Lovera opened, with her father Roger, this continuous chain mill, today the last one still in operation in Fréjus. He mainly takes care of the technical part with the maintenance of the 2,500 olive trees, she works in the shop where she will explain the different types of oil on offer (at least four fruity green and ripe fruity) and will let you taste many by-products: tapenades, olive cream, pastinades... You will also find aperitifs, soaps, creams and Provencal handicrafts.

Around an old 17th century building, the Martini family cultivates 2,000 trees, some of which resisted the 1956 frost. Cultivated in sustainable agriculture, the plots are grassed with a harvest entirely by hand or using combs. The olives are brought to the mill, the well named Esquirol du provençal esquiraù, squirrel, because it is not uncommon to see them on the property! This mill produces an AOC Provence oil, an olive oil from France as well as table olives, green or black, and olive paste.

A well known institution in the region, recently taken over by a pastry chef from Lyon who loves the South, Donatien Oxner. What made the success of this pastry shop remains the same. Excellence always and pure greed. The signature pastries of the house are still there like the Mogador or the homemade ice creams that we love at Le Petit futé. Between tradition and touches of modernity, the House of Barry evolves without ever making concessions on what has always made its prestige. An attentive welcome and satisfaction are the order of the day.

It is the ideal address for those who do not have the time to go around the Bandol vineyards. This showcase of the Bandol appellation (AOP), located opposite the town's gaming casino, offers for sale, and at the same price as on the estates, the vintages - powerful and velvety reds, fruity and finely racy rosés, fine and full-bodied whites - of the fifty or so winegrowers who are members of the "Bandol wines" association. A good plan!

Center Leclerc in Hyères is a supermarket located in the Roubaud zone, avenue Mario Benard. The store offers a wide range of food and non-food products. In addition to the supermarket, Centre Leclerc also has a service station where you can fill up on fuel. The store also offers services such as parapharmacy, a jewelry carousel and DIY.

The Trans-en-Provence Carrefour is a hypermarket located in the Carrefour shopping center. It offers a wide range of services such as Carrefour Banque, Carrefour Drive, Carrefour Location, Carrefour Spectacles, Carrefour Traiteur and a Carrefour service station. It also offers online shopping with the drive service and home delivery. The Trans-en-Provence Carrefour also offers regular promotions and loyalty benefits for its customers. In addition to food products, the store also offers services such as catering, photocopying, key duplication and solar panel sales.

Cavalaire-sur-Mer's Carrefour Market is a supermarket located on Avenue des Alliés. It offers a range of services including in-store shopping, drive-through and delivery. In addition to food shopping, Carrefour Market also offers services such as car rental, gas station, key duplication and flower sales. Customers can also enjoy free, unlimited Wi-Fi in the store. The Cavalaire-sur-Mer Carrefour Market also offers regular promotions and catalogs to help customers save money. Customers can also take advantage of Carrefour's show service. Finally, the store also offers specific services for people with autism disorders or who prefer quiet atmospheres, with a silent hour every day from 1pm to 2pm and from 4pm to 5pm.

In their family property, Liliane and Sylvie, who took over from their mother Micheline, produce about 50 varieties of jams made the old-fashioned way, including the traditional ones of the house, watermelon with orange and figs with walnuts, but also the surprising courgettes with raspberry and pumpkin with rum, various fruit or vegetable chutneys, rosemary honey, black cherry syrup, soft quince paste and aromatic plant syrups. A safe bet for shopping in Aups.

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A family property since 1974, Château du Carrubier extends over 88 hectares, including 25 hectares of vines, planted in the Maures hills and close to the sea. Here, tradition rubs shoulders with modernity, and the know-how of yesteryear lives on. The harvest is still done by hand, and the grapes are sorted and de-stemmed before being put into vats. The wines produced in the three colours are fully classified as AOP Côtes de Provence, and are regularly awarded medals and prizes.

On his family property in Cotignac, where there is also a vineyard of about three hectares, Christian Berton produces an oil known as "old-fashioned black fruity", which he produces from 800 trees planted on 1.5 hectares, without irrigation. Bouteillan, aglandau and cayon are the varieties that will give the 1,000 liters obtained after crushing at the mill in La Londe-les-Maures. Awarded multiple times at the Concours Général Agricole de Paris, as evidenced by the gold medal for the vintage 2022 mature. The olive grower is a member of the Provence Appellation.

40 hectares of vineyards occupy most of Alain Tabani's time. He also takes great care of the olive trees, planted on 3 hectares. Moreover, he does not use any chemical treatment, and feeds them with manure. The olives come from the aglandau, salonenque and bouteillan varieties and are crushed at the Saint-Zacharie mill. His oil is a blend of these three varieties, in green fruity, and benefits from the AOP Aix-en-Provence appellation. You will find it at the estate. Nectars 100 % natural, with sometimes sweet, sometimes powerful aromas, and an exceptional ardence.

2 kilometres before the village of Correns, Coralie Gautier produces fruit and vegetables. Stop and buy directly from this producer all the products of his farm and enjoy the true flavours of the land.

Every morning, this genuine Provençal market offers you fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, local products, in a convivial atmosphere where the soul of Provence is blurred.

A fine grocery store offering you many noble products, truffles, caviar, salmon, foie gras, champagne, but also Provencal and Italian specialities, quenelle, honey, brown jam, sardines, pasta, cold meats, cheeses… At the bar, you can enjoy a counter kitchen, with tapas, antipasti, breakfast plate…, of wines from the Vignoble's Center in Brignoles-sur-Issole, which you can also buy to take, like old marc and olive oil in the area.

The estate is located in a paradisiacal place between Jouques and Rians, at four hundred meters of altitude. Nestling at the foot of the Vautubière river, the vineyard faces the Sainte-Victoire and extends over 10 hectares, on a clay-limestone soil, with a southern exposure. This estate, run by Pierre Michelland, produces wines with the most complex aromas, within the framework of organic farming. In this northern part of the Coteaux-d'Aix-en-Provence appellation, the harvest is late, and carried out by hand for each grape variety.

Created in 1913, Les caves du Commandeur are more than a century old! This farm, freshly certified High Environmental Value,is located in the middle of green Provence. Spread over the AOP Côtes-de-Provence and IGP Var appellations, the vineyard is worked with a deep respect for the environment. With the Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache grape varieties for the reds, Syrah, Grenache and Cinsault for the rosés, and Rolle for the whites, the nectars obtained are fine and elegant.

This estate offers an innovative concept with a magnificent vineyard, spread over 46 hectares entirely in the Côtes de Provence appellation and certified organic since February 2021, associated with a boutique hotel with a contemporary design. The winery, like the hotel, is a modern and contemporary place. Ultimate Provence offers 4 vintages in the three colors and in signature bottles: UP rosé, UP red, UP white, UP Origon rosé.

As early as 1930, the olive-growing cooperative became known for its table olives, starting with the one that bears its name: the Belgentiéroise. If this fleshy fruit is still the joy of Provençal aperitifs, the production has since been enriched by the Lucques and Picholine varieties, prepared in the traditional way. The shop offers delicious local products, as well as oils: green tapenade, black olive paste, anchovies, soaps, fig jams...

The Decomis family cultivates vines and olive trees on a 47-hectare estate at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire, between Puyloubier (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Pourrières. With its 2,200 trees, it presses in a modern mill a blend oil (aglandau, bouteillant, cayon and picholine) in green and ripe fruitiness. This oil is not filtered, and keeps all its smoothness. You will find it directly at the domain, or, in summer, during the traditional festival of the soup to the pistou, organized at the domain.

E.Leclerc La Seyne-sur-Mer is a hypermarket located on avenue Jean Albert Lamarque in La Seyne-sur-Mer. It offers a variety of services such as in-store collection, car washing, car rental, a parapharmacy, a service station, a catering service and a beauty store. It also offers practical services such as a postal mailbox, photocopier, recycling collection point and after-sales service. Customers can also consult online catalogs to find out about current offers. E.Leclerc La Seyne-sur-Mer is a convenient place to shop and enjoy a range of services.

A little appetite for sweets? You can enjoy the best pastries with a chocolate-praline-coffee-brown dessert, or fruit, meringuées lemon pies, season fruits, red fruits, Tatin, the black forest revisited, opera, saint-honored, the cakes to the thousand perfumes, the madeleines, and for your cocktails discover the evening cakes, mini skewers and mini pies… A real treat for the taste buds and eyes! And without forgetting that the house is also an excellent caterer (see Marriage-caterer).

Between Châteaudouble and Figanières, Catherine Fleury has been a cheese-maker since 1983 and breeds dairy cows, goats and ewes. In her store, all the cheeses she sells - around thirty different types - are produced on site, exclusively from raw milk. Dairy products in all shapes and sizes, from tomme to crottin, soft cheeses and bûchettes, as well as brousse du Var and faisselles. You can watch cows, sheep and goats being milked from 5.30pm.

Christophe Calderon, a passionate and experienced chocolatier, now has two locations to better serve the gourmands. You will find, in these very design pastry-chocolate shops, delicious macaroons and small traditional cakes: opera, Paris-Brest, saint-Honoré, fruit savarin, lemon tartlet, Trianon... but also ganaches with honey, lavender, lemon, tea, coffee, caramel, raspberry, passion fruit, milk... and ice cream. All these delights are available online, for collection or delivery.

Carrefour Ollioules is a hypermarket. It offers various services such as the Fram Ollioules travel agency, Carrefour Banque Ollioules, Carrefour Drive Ollioules, Carrefour Location, Carrefour SAV, Carrefour Spectacles, Carrefour Traiteur and Carrefour Voyages Ollioules. It also offers online shopping with its drive and delivery service. The Ollioules Carrefour also offers complementary services such as a parcel collection point, after-sales service, catering, car wash and photo printing. It also has a service station where you can find diesel, SP95, E10 and SP98.

Planted some 15 years ago, Eric and Sandrine Gayol's 2,500 trees are of the ribier, bouteillan, aglandau, cailletier, cayet roux and picholine varieties. Four oils are sold at the estate: an AOC Provence, a fruity green blend, a fruity green single variety of picholine and a fruity ripe single variety of cailletier. The mill is also open to individuals who can leave with their own oil from 200 kg.

Aurélie Teillaud's property covers 300 hectares, of which 72 hectares are under vine. Having belonged to the Grimaldi family, ancestors of the princes of Monaco, it was bought in 2005 by her father Bernard Teillaud. The technical and oenological contributions of Château Sainte-Roseline (another property of^Mrs. Teillaud) quickly bore fruit. Two very tasty vintages are available in the three colors. Each year, the vintages win their share of awards. The charming guest house won the silver medal in 2019 at the Trophées de l'Oenotourisme.

This delicatessen and oil bar, located in the heart of the village, has existed for over 20 years. Brigitte, your host, will make you taste different PDO and organic Provence oils, in order to discover their different flavours. Other natural and gourmet local products, black tapenades, olives, anchoïades, dried tomatoes, pistou, aubergine caviar, Provence honeys, spices, aperitifs, Côtes de Provence wines..., along with oils from the Vallée des Baux, Nyons..., as well as Provencal products including the famous Luberon sausage.

The hillside vineyard, leaning against the Maures massif with a view of the Hyères islands and the presidential fort of Brégançon, produces Côtes-de-Provence wines made from organically grown grapes. The three vintages, Grande Réserve, Collection privée and Donum dei, are vinified with the latest generation equipment. Château Maravenne, a neo-provençal residence with swimming pool, welcomes you all year round in gîtes and guest rooms. Don't miss the visit of the remarkable museum of automatons dedicated to the vine and wine trades.

The Delmotte family's Domaine de l'Olivette is a young family olive grove of 10 hectares on the banks of the Argens created in 1988, where various single-variety oils, arbequina, cayon, cornicabra, bouteillan, cailletier, picholine and frantoio, are all grown on the farm. Four varieties of olives are used for table olives: lucques and picholine for green olives and cailletier and leccino for black olives. Olive pastes and jams made from the farm's fruit are also available for sale.

Between Mount Aurélien and Sainte-Victoire, the Château de Pourcieux, an 18th century architectural ensemble, has belonged to the Marquis d'Espagnet family since its origin. Since 1986, Michel d'Espagnet has maintained the winegrowing vocation of the château, joined first by his son Rémi in the winemaking department, and then more recently by his daughter Alix in the marketing department. With approximately 30 hectares, the estate, certified High Environmental Value (HVE), cultivates a link between tradition and modernity of its wines thanks in particular to the creation of a new cellar in 2017.

This small family goat farm is lost in the middle of nature. On the spot, visit the goat farm and the cheese factory, before buying your farm goat cheese, fresh, creamy, dry, ladled (tome, plain creamy, savory or pepper, garlic-basil), more or less strong in taste according to the time of maturing. Also a beekeeper, you will be able to buy chestnut honey, lavender honey, or any other flower honey: a delight, directly produced at the farm. To be found on the markets of Saint-Maximin on Wednesday morning.

In her grocery store, Agnès Dicchi plays a central role in Mazaugues and the region. A real place of life and conviviality, you can find the best of regional products in this shop, which makes it a really interesting address when you visit the Green Provence. Wines, craft beers, jars, farm cheeses, delicatessen or even honeys and jams, you will find here what you need to treat yourself while remaining responsible. Some products are organic and we encourage you to limit your waste by coming with your own bag. Bread depot.

Who can imagine a vacation in the sun, in the south, at the beach, without the little ice cream break that goes with it? For that in Les Sablettes, go to this ice cream shop, open since 2005, a little bit behind the seaside, on the shopping street of the district. All sorts of flavors for your ice creams and sorbets, from the fruitiest to the most gourmet, they are made on the spot in a laboratory. To complete the offer, milkshakes, fresh fruit smoothies and pancakes, also inseparable from holiday snacks.

We are at the entrance of the Valley and yet it is the mention Vignerons de Correns that welcomes you in this brand new building. You are here at the cooperative of the winegrowers of the nearby village of Correns, known as the first organic village in France and where the inhabitants have taken over the work of the soil, in the respect of nature. You will find wines in the three colors, in appellations vins de pays d'Argens, AOC côtes-de-provence and even a very small IGP correns. All prices for all ranges, accessible in all cases.

Without any doubt, here is a place where the gourmets can go with closed eyes and without hesitation. Marcelle Baux is an artisan jam maker and offers you to discover a range of original and varied jams, made in copper cauldrons from fresh local products and flavours from the past, but also various regional products from the artisanal manufacture of jams to accompany your meals, flavoured vinegars, chutneys, black and green olive jam, pepper jam...

The Domaine de la Croix is part of the very closed club of classified growths of Provence. The 110-hectare vineyard enjoys a privileged location, with vines spread between the village of La Croix-Valmer, the beach of Gigaro and the fabulous site of the Bastide Blanche. These terroirs enjoy natural assets that give the wines of Domaine de la Croix a natural elegance. The ultra-modern winery, built underground, in addition to its advanced techniques, is a real tool integrated into its landscape environment.

This family estate of 13 hectares of vines, created around 1858, is located on an exceptional south and south-west facing terroir, between Pierrefeu and Collobrières, in the Côtes-de-Provence Pierrefeu appellation area. Philippe and Pascale Blancard, dynamic winegrowers, regularly organise events, picnics and open days to promote their wines. They also have an apple orchard with 8 varieties of apples, open for picking every year on weekends from the end of August and produce a 100% pure apple juice.

Located below the village, in the Pin district, this delicatessen offers a fine selection of local or foreign products, but in any case from small producers. In addition to some 300 references in gourmet products, you will find charcuterie and cheese in the form of take-away trays, aperitif boxes , and even turnkey trays for your fondues and raclettes! To accompany all this, there are no less than 380 references of wines, champagnes, whiskies and other spirits; ask Christophe for advice, he will be able to guide you