Olive oil producers Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Velaux, a charming town in Provence, is home to Terroirs de Provence, a renowned olive oil producer. Since 2000, they've been selling their products online, offering olive oil lovers the world over the chance to sample their production. Their site offers a variety of information on their production, store, olive oil cooking, recipes and health benefits.

Tasting of olive oil, tapenade, honey... it happens in the store of the mas de Cayol, a pretty store where a pleasant smell of Provence emanates. You can find there countless gustatory treasures, but also wooden utensils and the famous beer of the gardians. Groups can also take part in a nice walk in the olive trees with a tasting of olive oil and olives on the way back. The welcome is friendly, even good-natured. A pleasant stopover that we can only recommend.

The estate owes its name to an ancient gypsum quarry located on its land. Organic farming is used to produce wine and olive oil. If you'd like to learn more about the mysteries of wine, you'll find wine tourism workshops and a tasting school. In the boutique, cuvées with enchanting names await you: Care du vent, Caresse du vent, Grande cuvée..

Located in the heart of the estate's 70ha of vineyards and olive groves, the Terrasses d'Adrien boutique offers top-quality wines and olive oils that you can taste on site. Two typically Provençal oils are produced from 1,618 olive trees, most of them grown in restanques: "Vert Intense", with notes of dried fruit and freshly cut grass, and "Noir d'olive", with aromas of candied olives, cooked artichokes and cocoa zest. Three other aromatic oils complete the range, adding pep to your recipes. To be enjoyed on site after a pleasant stroll around the estate.

Established since 2008, on a small traditional farm in the Ventoux, the farmhouse offers olive oil. They have put back into cultivation the saffron of Carpentras, forgotten for more than 100 years. As for the certified organic harvests (approximate dates) from 20/04 to 5/05 it will be the strawberry season, from 15/05 to 01/07 the cherry, from 25/05 to 10/07 the apricot, from 01/07 to 20/08 the fig, from 20/08 to 25/09 the grape and from 25/09 to 15/10 the quince; ideal for making good jam! What's up? Go and have a look if you are in the area. 100% biodynamic.

A few kilometers from Aix, the Petit Janet mill was established in November 2012 under the impetus of Sébastien Lézaud, in the heart of the Côtes chain in Lambesc; the last oil mill in this area had closed in 1956 after the terrible devastating frost. Son and grandson of a farmer, Sébastien, a wine and cereal grower, is passionately committed to his domain as an olive grower, producing two oils with an intense green fruity taste, but also as a miller for the inhabitants of Lambesc who own a few olive trees.

This wine and olive-growing estate is located in the heart of the Provencal countryside and produces wines from noble grape varieties. It benefits from the Coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence PDO. Its oil mill has been awarded the distinction Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company), a label of excellence for French know-how. Among the flagship olive oils are the AOP Aix-en-Provence, the Fruité Mûr de Château Virant, the Vallon des Oliviers in AOP Provence, Fruité Mûr and Bio... Many home-made delicacies are available in the shop (cooked wine jams, olive caramels...)

7 ha on the Valensole plateau. Josiane and Gérard Terrasson have planted 1,500 trees, 90% of which are of the aglandau variety, which lends its typicality to their oil, an organic PDO Haute Provence olive oil that has won several medals at the Concours Général Agricole. The estate is located in the Alpes de Haute Provence, and the olives are crushed at the Moulin de Gréoux and the Moulin Bonaventure in Valensole, but they also sell their oil from their home in Aix, as well as in local organic stores

André Giauffret has been growing quails since 1992 for his olives, which he transforms into oil, paste and table olives, all certified AOP de Nice. But at La Sirole, you can also put your feet under the table of the family restaurant to taste these local products directly. An authentic Nissarde cuisine which gives pride of place to the olives from the estate. Taste the real pissaladière, the pan bagnat or the salad niçoise seasoned with André's olive oil. And there, under the shady arbour lined with olive trees, time stands still...

Denis, santonnier, great defender of the rural world. It is dressed in his apron that he warmly welcomes you in his workshop in order to make you discover his art, his passion: the creation of santons in painted or waxed clay. Throughout the exchanges, Denis mixes the clay, paints it, signs the subjects. We find classic figurines such as the baby Jesus, the shepherd, the wise men, but what makes Denis popular is his little touch on some santons: he puts forward a villager (such as the herbalist, the baker...).

The Moulin du Grand Réal is a traditional oil mill, you can see the granite millstone, the scourtins and the two hydraulic presses during your visit. The olives harvested on the estate are crushed from November to December to give an A.O.C. certified organic oil. The oil of the mill as well as all the farm products directly cultivated or manufactured by the Grand Réal (seasonal vegetables, goat cheese...) are sold at the ESAT shop. They are also served at the inn. Freshness guaranteed.

The Mallessons farm 20 hectares of garrigue land, ideal for growing perfume, aromatic and medicinal plants. The plants are traditionally distilled in their laboratory to produce essential oils, floral waters and soaps. The rest is dried and transformed into herbes de Provence. They also produce a fruity green olive oil and honey. The distillery is not open to visitors, but you can see the lavender fields in bloom in July.

Descended from a long line of farmers of Vaudois origin, François Aurouze created this estate in 1988. While he produced AOC Luberon wines until 2020, since then he has concentrated on olive oil production. Cultivated on just under 3ha of mainly Aglandau olive trees, the oil is certified organic. Visit the cellar in the heart of the village to taste this unique oil and tour the ^17th-century vaulted cellars and troglodytic oil mill.

Annette and Erwann Le Négrate run the 5-hectare Domaine du Piéchal olive grove. They use organic growing methods that respect their land. Situated on the "Route des Oliviers" in the 06, the estate boasts the Appellation d'Origine Protégée Nice olive oil and Nice olive paste and olives. On site, the couple offer a tasting session and a few explanations. In particular, leave with a fruity green olive oil. For your aperitifs, try our olive paste with caillette lemon.

Located on the Route des Oliviers, l'Oli D'aqui is the pride and joy of Jean-Philippe Frère, a talented olive grower who has won numerous medals at the Concours Général, notably for his AOC Nice black olives. It's enough to convince you to come and visit the orchard, taste its sun-drenched local products and, of course, leave with some olive oil and other olive pastes to share as an aperitif. You can also find this range of products at the Marché des collines, just a stone's throw from the farm.

Stop off at Domaine Pied Faucon and its Le Trésor des oliviers oil mill. Here, 9,000 olive trees flourish on a 25-hectare estate, certified High Environmental Value, where vines and almond trees also grow. These artisan millers work with respect for the know-how inherited over several generations. They are also winegrowers, producing wines in the Ventoux appellation, as well as Cru Beaumes-de-Venise and Muscat Beaumes-de-Venise.

To say that Serge is in love with his trees would be a little easy. However, this sexagenarian became a farmer at 21 on a whim! "It took me," he says simply. Since then, he has been tending his 600 olive trees, 200 of which are a hundred years old. The certified organic oil is also stamped AOP Haute Provence. Serge also prepares black tapenade. On site, you can enjoy a ten-minute video explaining the entire manufacturing process, and a shop.

Famous producer, miller and selector of olive oils since 1868, Nicolas Alziari is located in the hills of Nice. Fortunately, his second store is located in the heart of the old town. Nicely decorated with its huge olive oil barrels, it offers a wide choice of the unavoidable house products (original vintages, great vintages, flavored oils), a beautiful range of gift boxes but also excellent condiments, jams, honeys, spices, sweets, soups, wines and spirits... In addition, the welcome is friendly.

Chantal and Patrick Ochs combine two skills: those of olive grower and miller. Crushed by granite millstones, the olives are transformed into three oils: La Discrète, a single variety of bouteillan; La Fougueuse, ranked since 2008 among the best olive oils in the world; and La Précieuse obtained by crushing the olives. These are the very first olive oil drops obtained naturally by crushing without any pressure, a quintessence.

Émile Tihy welcomes you with a big smile in his farm and his old oil mill and initiates you to the secrets of the making of olive oil, olive paste and other delicious tapenades. After the visit, it is good to taste and buy the olive products, but also jams, preserves and other essences of wild lavender house. In addition to the sales organized in the farm, you can find these products in various organic supermarkets (such as Biocoop) as well as on the markets, or fairs..

It was built by the villagers in the ^17th century. In other words, the communal mill is an integral part of the village's heritage and history. In fact, it has been so well preserved that it has hardly changed at all. Pressing is still done by hand: two burly men turn a big stick to squeeze the oil from the scourtins. A spectacle not to be missed between December and January, and during the New Oil Festival.

Between 1998 and 2000, Serge Masse planted 1,800 trees next to the family's 5 olive trees, spread over 5 parcels around the village of Pourcelles. From the aglandau variety, the olives, which he has crushed at the Luberon mill, give an oil as Serge Masse likes it " : between the green fruity and the ripe fruity ". So without too much ardor, but enough to wake up the dishes! His organic oil is sold online, on the website of the delicatessen of the Maison Brémond 1830.

This estate was built in the seventeeth century and located at a dozen kilometres from Aix, this estate belongs to the same family for four generations now. Nasles, the family is one of the linchips of the promotion of Coteaux d'Aix, with its leading role in Confrérie des échansons of Roy René, but also through the wine it produces on the field. The Camaïssette vineyards, which dates back to 1901 is lclassified in A.O.C. Côteaux d'Aix in its entirety. It covers over 23 hectares and produced wine in the three colours. Today, the estate is managed by Michelle Nasles and her son Olivier, an oenologist. The estate also produces AOC d'Aix olive oil.

Domaine L'OLIVADE, a family-run olive farm in La Ciotat since 1908, produces top-quality olive oils. With 1400 olive trees, some of which are over a hundred years old, the estate cultivates six varieties exclusively from Provence. Thanks to its sustainable cultivation methods, its oils, which carry the "huile d'olive de France" label, are natural and tasty. Offering blends of green and ripe fruits, as well as exceptional cuvées, the estate favors direct sales through short circuits. A treasure trove for olive oil lovers.

Maison Leydier is an agricultural farm located in Grans. It offers a wide range of local products, including artisanal olive oils, table olives, spreads and fruit juices. Flagship products include Picholine Intense and Subtil olive oils, and Picholine green olives. Maison Leydier also offers flavored oils, such as basil and black truffle olive oil. Lovers of spreads will delight in black olive paste with tomato and green olive tapenade. Maison Leydier's fruit juices include peach and apple nectar.