Gourmet products local specialties and wines Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

One of the best value for money in our selection, this red-Rhone coast Tree de Vignes 2009 is surprising by its finesse and elegance: ruby robe, the nose of eucalyptus, lavender and thyme, without losing itself in the mouth, aromas beautifully filled with fresh acidity and absorbed by notes of caramel and ripe. Ideal companion for red meats and strong cheeses served at room temperature.

This vineyard covers 21 hectares, with a particularly favourable soil. The wines produced, all of which are certified organic, from Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Carignan, Counoise and Mourvèdre grapes, are elegant and high quality. Éole Tradition is available in all three colours. There is also a white Vermentitude made from 100% vermentino grapes and matured in ovoid concrete vats, a sparkling rosé and the Confidence (white), Caprice (rosé) and Réserve des Gardians (red) vintages, as well as the most prestigious: Léa and le K (100% carignan).

Known as an outstanding and discreet artisan, Vincent Dubreucq is certainly one of the city's most gifted pastry chefs, if not the most brilliant. And yet, despite a small success in the Saint-Barnabé district, his name is not necessarily at the top of lists of must-try pastry shops. A bit like his sober boutique, which looks more like a bakery (with incredible viennoiseries and good bread) than a fine pastry shop. Let yourself be charmed by his creations of unparalleled finesse and balance: the Saint-Honoré, the Camarguais and even his flan pâtissier or incredible cookies. Addictive and always affordable.

Château de Brégançon in Bormes-les-Mimosas is a vast 17th-century residence, where the Tézenas family has been carefully cultivating vines with an average age of 40 years on 42 hectares since 1816. Their wines, made from a variety of grape varieties and classified as Côtes-de-Provence crus since 1955, come in two cuvées in all three colors. Environmentally aware, the estate is certified to level 3 of the Haute Valeur Environnementale and obtained the label Agriculture Biologique in 2020, rewarding its efforts in sustainable agriculture to maintain its level of excellence.

Vines in the Esterel ? Certified organic, the 4 hectare vineyard offers a variety of wines made from Cinsault, Syrah, Rolle, Clairette, Chardonnay and Muscat à petits grains grapes. In the greatest respect of the terroir, the wines are elaborated according to the rules of organic vinification.

The Cave L'Oasis offers a very selective range of about 250 references out of the 1,200 that the historic Oasis has, as well as a range of spirits. Pascal Paulze, sommelier and Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2015, guides you towards the emotion that a wine can bring.

Ferrigno is the only fish cannery in the Mediterranean. Guided tours are organized from July to August by the tourist office, upon reservation. The company's know-how has been passed down through three generations, and their preserves are guaranteed to be deep-fried-free. A full range of ready-made dishes is sold in delicatessens, supermarkets and at Lou Ferrignade. You'll find canned sardines, tuna, anchovies, mussels, bisque, bouillabaisse, tuna stew... A true discovery of industrial heritage.

For over 20 years, this organic confectionery factory, in collaboration with the horticulturists of the Grasse pool of the chocolates, biscuits and sweets based on natural flavours of flowers. You trouve des sugars flavoured with pink, violet, the poppyseed, the mimosa but also confit and the frost of flowers.

The estate, certified organic Ecocert since 2014, covers 120 hectares, where 36 hectares of vines are planted on clay-limestone soil on the bottom, very stony at the foot of the hill. The wines produced here are natural, without yeast, enzymes or chemicals. The range consists of 4 vintages in AOP Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence and IGP Coteaux du Verdon: Bob Singlar, les Monges, septentrionales and OVNI 100% Nat. The wines are fresh, unique, carefully worked by the teams of the Mongestine, in the respect of the soil, the nature and the environment.

Good bread, baked over a wood fire, prepared exclusively with leaven made from the wheat of the farmer Henri de Pazzis, in Maillane, is what this new bakery offers you, located just opposite the Alpilles Bio shop. The whole team offers you a wide choice of breads made from very pure flours, from which all the fibres that are harmful to the body have been removed. Each product is obtained after a millimetric cooking which gives it all its gustatory characteristics. Here you can eat without moderation.

Who would have thought that natural wine could be produced in the heart of Marseille? And yet, this is exactly what Nathalie Cornec has been passionately working on since 2015, in her winemaking facility near the Saint-Charles train station. A project launched long before the "natural wine" wave arrived in the Phocaean city two or three years ago. A true city dweller, Nathalie harvests in the Ardèche and Luberon regions, then vinifies in her urban cellar in Marseille. A unique case indeed. The wines are chemical-free. At the end of the day, you can come and buy your bottles.

Looking for local, seasonal fruit and vegetables? Denise and Daniel Vuillon, the founders of France's ^1st Association pour le Maintien de l'Agriculture Paysanne (Association for the preservation of small-scale farming), support the producers of the first AMAPs in PACA and many other regions. You can commit to a sustainable approach by buying baskets of fruit and vegetables over a period of time (ask for details). To concoct your own recipes, don't forget to take a look at the garden recipes blog. The Olivades farmhouse inn lets you sample farm produce on site.

Elegant wine shop located near the intersection of Boulevard Périer and Rue Paradis. The space is not very large but the choice is there. A small delicatessen corner to complete a nice selection of French, Italian, Spanish red wines but also very good rosé wines for the summer. From time to time, events are organized to present this or that grape variety in the spotlight, the sidewalk is then taken over by the fine palates invited for the occasion. Note that a very nice and wide range of bubbles is on sale here, champagnes and crémants, ideal for parties and any special occasion. Olivier's advice is wise and sharp. Some wines are organic.

Cultivated in organic agriculture, the 13 ha of olive trees in the Tapi Mas domain result from acquired know-how over five generations. The PDO oil Vallée des Baux-de-Provence produced here is declined in two juices: green and black. From the end of September, you will also find at the boutique located in the centre of Mouriès, the famous green olives broken, hand picked and prepared in brine with fennel, and black olives sewn to salt, as the PDO wants. The domain organises visits from its olive grove of half a day with Provençal snacks to the key. 

The Jullien family has been making olive oil for almost a century, focusing on a single variety: the aglandau, which loves arid soil and a harsh climate. The oils produced at the mill are therefore monovarietal, available in three fruity varieties. Black, green and an organic "ripe fruity" oil. It's also a great place to take the kids, who can look for the little signs and learn about olive cultivation. And don't forget to taste the honey.

The Bellon family marked the history of the village of Fontvieille. Not only thanks to the notoriety of their oil mill, but also because two of its members became first magistrate of the commune, Hyacinthe and Henri. Today, it is the two sons of the latter, Jean-Pierre and Jacques, who have been at the helm of this field in the family since 1913. They grow their 3 000 olive trees planted on about twenty hectares with care: weeding, fertilisers, reasoned irrigation, etc. With fruits, they manufacture a PDO oil Vallée de Baux-de-Provence. Their moulin mill also presses the olives of 400. The Bellon also prepare table olives (Lucca and picholine), quenelle, and green olive pulp to basil or tomato. 

A producer of aromatic and medicinal plants, Wendy creates seasonal herbal teas to suit your needs. Zou maï is a detox infusion made from plants known for their natural benefits - rosemary, peppermint, linden, olive, elderberry and chamomile. Wendy also offers flavored salts and sugars, organic cane sugars to which she adds verbena leaves, mint or fine lavender. She gives pretty names to her herbal teas and by-products: le Fada, l'Ensuqué, le Pitchoun, le Cagnard, Mistral, Manon...

Located in the heart of the department, this cheese factory produces 100% raw milk cheeses from the Hautes-Alpes in a traditional way. It was founded in 2002 by Ramon Caballe, who already owned the Queyras cheese dairy (founded in 1991). From melted Gruyere to raclette with pepper, including baby blue, you will find in the store a dozen excellent home-made cheeses. In addition to the home-made products, you will find creamery products (butter, cottage cheese...), cold cuts, drinks and local products.

The adventure began in 1890 with the creation of the cheese factory by the great-grandfather Charles Ebrard. At the beginning, he only made tommes and gruyères at the request of the milk producers. The original maturing cellar has remained almost unchanged, but the range has been extended and a large, beautiful wooden shop now offers the house production. In the cheese department, an impressive range of all types and all types of milk, some of them stamped organic, yoghurts, faisselles, creams, custards, milk jam...

In the village of Montfuron, the Pirard family makes farmhouse goat cheese with respect for nature and the animals. The goats, of the Saanen or Alpine breeds, eat only hay and cereals, and graze when weather and season permit. They produce between 2 and 2.5 liters a day, and enjoy a long resting season in winter. The cheeses are sold at the Manosque market on Fridays and Saturdays. You can also come to the farm, and even stay in a gîte!

Le Coin du Fromager is a cheese shop, of course, but it is also a delicatessen and a wine cellar where you can discover and taste good local products. You can compose your own platter or select yogurt, butter and fresh cream from a wide range of products matured with a delicate know-how. A must stop where the relaxed and family atmosphere adds to the quality of the already affable and timeless place. Since the pandemic, tastings have unfortunately been suspended.

Eve and her daughter Ambre are surrounded by a dynamic team to perpetuate the tradition of excellent poultry. Located near the Cours Julien, this store allows you to admire beautiful displays of poultry. The principle of Cure-Bourse poultry is to give you time to grow and a natural diet for poultry that will undoubtedly make you rediscover the true good taste of chicken, turkey or guinea fowl. Nice selection of canned food and prepared meals

Food lovers, there's no need to wait for market appearances to fill up on harvested honey - it's now on sale in Biot! Bee Riviera has opened its boutique opposite the town hall, filled with charm and magnificent stone walls, where jars of 100% local honey can be found, as well as mead and jams, not forgetting Catherine Brothier's delicious ZK chocolate spread. The honey producer has also entered into a partnership with Héloïse Gaidoz, a talented pastry chef from Biot.

When you arrive in the center of Cotignac at the end of the day, it is impossible to ignore a small garden terrace nestled against the rock, where the atmosphere is festive. At the "tailleur de bière", you can taste the productions of the microbrewery of La Tuf, managed by Renaud, who came from the flat country to treat us. You are here in contact with the production and taste the beers "at the source": IPA, raspberry sour, triple saffron or a fig beer, no question of being bored here while ordering your beer. The place to go out in Cotignac!

At the foot of the Alpilles, the estate has belonged to the Sabran-Pontevès family since 1817.Éloïse perpetuates a long wine tradition by developing the vines, planted by her great-grandparents in 1900. Wines but also organic vinegars, a confidential and even ancestral production because the mother (i.e. the gelatinous deposit that forms at the bottom of the wine bottle) dates from more than a hundred years ago, and is fed since with the tasting bottles of the domain started and not finished. Everything is qualitative, respectful, essential.

Come to take height on a plateau dominating the Durance and the village of Jouques! And discover this timeless place, with its fields of olive trees, lavender and orchards planted with beehives. The Benedictine abbey welcomes all pilgrims and various people for a restful stay but also offers all its products for sale in the store: jam, honey, soap, essential oil of lavandin and even its wine, "Louange", in red and now in rosé.

For his first opening of a pastry shop outside of the capital, the most media-friendly and endearing of pastry chefs chose Saint-Tropez to open his gourmet store. He collaborates with Benoît Couvrand to create little marvels of sweets: pavlova with seasonal fruits or, of course, the house tropézienne tart, as well as the unavoidable marshmallow bears that will delight young and old. The store is bright and designed as a tribute to the South.

An "old fashioned" bakery as we like it. Without any pejorative sense of the term. First of all, we love the interior with its deceptively rococo decoration, the moldings, the large mirrors that contrast with the bustling atmosphere of the Place Jean-Jaurès, an alternative district if ever there was one. The terrace unfolds in the sun and is an ideal spot for your morning coffee, especially on market days, when you can appreciate the animation under your eyes. On the bakery side, very good homemade buns and pastries with some unexpected specialties like the poppy croissant. A marvel of delicacy in the mouth that we have never found elsewhere in the city. Just for that...

Le Petit Futé met this family on a beautiful Provencal morning at the Egalyères market. A meeting with a "golden" family! The stall is superb, richly stocked with fresh, tasty fish and other seafood. As for the smile, it's a sunny one. Lolo offers Mediterranean fish fresh from the famous Grau-du-Roi fish auction. The salmon-cabillaud brochettes are delicious. Shellfish platter at Christmas, tuna in summer, terrines, etc. We recommend this indispensable "tour"!

Why La Casa di Mina simply because Mina is the Corsican grandmother. Thus one finds there the best Corsican products. On the early side, 100% local products within a 40 km radius. Products from an ecological agriculture. The range of Marius products is very well represented, tapenade, anchovy paste, ratatouille, ristes and regional products. You will obviously enjoy Corsican cheeses and their Provencal cousins. But also pasta from the wheat of the mas de Daudet, fresh eggs, charcuterie from Luberon, regional wines... A farandole of delights.

But which river are we talking about on this boulevard Longchamp so popular with walkers? Is there a river buried beneath Marseille? We're a long way from that, in fact. Martin, a native of Lyon, has named his grocery store in homage to the Rhône, the river of life that links the Lyon region to the Mediterranean, via the Ardèche and Vaucluse regions and their rich terroirs. Here, you'll find charcuterie, cheeses and beverages, as well as delicatessen products. Regional products, guaranteed good taste and an opportunity to remember the richness of the Rhône Valley. Sandwiches to enjoy on the terrace or to take away.

A superb butcher's shop in the heart of Saint-Martin-de-Crau. Yoann, the owner, works mainly with short-run Aubrac cattle. This superb, brand-new store also boasts a rotisserie and a maturing cellar. A beautiful and appetizing "traiteur" section with take-away lasagne, flaky vegetable tartar, eggplant parmesan or gardiane de taureau, for example... We love the fact that the butcher's shop also offers you the option of putting together your own package of grilled meats.

The Maison Gaillardet is above all a family history, a history of taste for good products. Their cult creation, the tasty Troprovençale! A brioche with orange blossom, topped with vanilla mousseline cream and sprinkled with sugar snow. To our delight, they offer different versions of this tasty brioche: chocolate, praline, chestnut cream, pistachio, lemon, strawberry or raspberry. We can't recommend any of them because they are all addictive.

We've been dreaming of a rhum arrangé made in Marseille, and Les Canailles has made it! A team of enthusiasts whose production laboratory is located on the Cours Gouffé, right next to the Zoumaï brasserie, offer us some exotic beverages that showcase the Provencal terroir. The rum and exotic fruits used in some recipes come from afar, but otherwise Les Canailles has made a point of working locally (apples from Vaucluse, figs from Solliès...). The result is fruity, sunny recipes of incomparable quality, sourced right around the corner. Mango chilli, almond caramel or apple tonka bean, which one will make you fall in love?

This delicious grocery store has been enriched for the greatest pleasure of our taste buds with the arrival of a new caterer and a cheese shop. You will find all the cheeses "made in Alpilles" as well as those of other regions. As for the catering, it is a farandole of tastes, a large choice of starters, dishes and desserts: quiches, veal shank, salmon lasagna, moussaka and other dishes just as appetizing. Finally, there is nothing like a Gallo-Roman wine to taste a goat cheese from the Alpilles!

For 5 generations, the Bondil butcher shop, an institution in Moustiers, welcomes you in a traditional store where everything is made on the spot. Baptiste selects French meat with care and offers you a wide variety of sausages and other grilled meats, a paradise for barbecues. It is the perfect place for the amateurs of good products like sausages, the famous pavé du Verdon but also succulent cooked dishes or tapas.

Just a few steps from the well-named market place, in the heart of the village, the covered market awaits you to do your gourmet shopping guaranteed 100% local merchants. A nice choice of seafood products, a cheese shop, a butcher, flowers but also fruits and vegetables, a stand of the "Tarte Tropézienne" for everything that is pastry, without forgetting a wine bar for a nice moment of conviviality. Nice atmosphere!

At Populo, the new food court in La Joliette, sweet tooths won't have missed the tempting corner by Martin Flecher, a talented pastry chef if ever there was one. A beautiful display of tarts, strawberry tarts, lemon tarts and choux pastries. Already visually stunning, they're a delight in terms of taste and balance. We tasted the tart lemon tart and the praline flan, both perfect. The flan is also available in plain, praline or chocolate. Enthusiasts will be delighted. Whole cakes can be ordered.

If you're a coffee lover in Marseille, there's no shortage of good addresses for coffee roasting shops. Café Lauca, on the other hand, is a speciality with this micro-boutique set up just behind the courthouse. A tiny space for great coffees, exceptional vintages and the incomparable savoir-faire of Laurent, the owner. Here, people come to choose their coffee as they come to choose their wine. Many nuances for a passion born of a family trip to South America, in Colombia, for this talented young Aubagnais.

Well-known chocolatiers in the Vaucluse, Florence and Laurent Lesage sold their stores in Carpentras, Vaison La Romaine and Sarrians to take over Maison Aujoras a short while ago. They perpetuate the know-how of this century-old artisanal factory, renowned for its specialities: croquettes with almonds and Papalines d'Avignon, a pink thistle with Comtat oregano liqueur coated in dark and white chocolate. Well worth a visit if you're in the area and have a sweet tooth.

On the road to the Larche and Vars passes, a stop at the 3 Alpes cheese and meat shop is a must. Installed since the summer of 2020 in this green valley, you can discover here all the cheese and charcuterie productions of the house: faisselles, cheeses and tommes. Surprising and quite rare, goat charcuterie, to be tasted without hesitation. It is also a nice outing with your children since they can approach animals, goats and donkeys.

Located in Salon-de-Provence, InterCaves is a wine shop with a passion for discovering treasures unearthed in France and around the world. With over 550 wine and champagne references, 80 Réserves à Vin®, 450 whiskies, rums and spirits, 150 craft beers and casks, as well as 100 delicatessen products, you'll find a wide choice of products to enjoy. The store also offers a wide range of services, including boot loading, home delivery, equipment rental (draught taps), festive event organization, tasting evenings and customized gift boxes.

Whatever the occasion: Business dinner, romantic meals or evening evenings among friends, push the door of the Intercave shop in Châteaurenard, it is the assurance of being well advised and finding the perfect vintage. Sébastien Suppo and his team will advise you with professionalism and kindness on the ideal product, whether French, foreign, champagne or strong alcohols. The staff were very friendly and helpful.

La Cave de la Grande Marine in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is a wine shop offering a wide selection of wines, champagnes and spirits. Whether for a convivial dinner or a special event, you'll find legendary references as well as nuggets at low prices. The boutique showcases regions from France and around the world, offering a palette of flavors and colors. From organic wines to peated whiskies, champagnes and exotic rums, there's something for everyone. La Cave de la Grande Marine also offers gift ideas and alcohol-free products. For added convenience, you can order online and choose between in-store collection or home delivery.