Gourmet products local specialties and wines Eguilles

For 4 generations this company, created in 1880 by Epiphanie, the great-great-grandmother of Sylvie Parent (who currently manages the company) has been at the service of gourmandise. The calisson is the flagship product of the company. Classic, it is available in several flavors and is coated with chocolate at Christmas and Easter. The nougats, another speciality, have pretty names: Mister Nougat Caramel, Madam Victorine, Miss Vanilla, Mister Hard... Fruidoraix, Also the traditional orange blossom shuttles, and shuttles with olives, Espelette pepper or caramel chips. The ancestral recipes are respected but we will not know more, the factory is not visited.

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...

La Mamette is how Victor called his grandmother, whose specialty of orange wine he wanted to transmit. La Mamette is therefore an aperitif, based on natural wine, good organic citrus fruits (lemon, orange, pomelo but also yuzu, bouddah bread, lemon nectar...), some spices (cinnamon, clove) and a little alcohol.
The production, launched recently in 2022, is made organically, from rosé or white wines from organic wine growers in Provence, to which are added whole citrus fruits produced locally, and spices, of course. An original base for renewed cocktails, a Provencal spritz or a mazeste, to be consumed iced with moderation of course!

In this sunny town, which is dominated by the castle of Des d'Eguilles, located 10 kilometres north-west of Aix, wine-growing represents half of the agricultural activity. The cooperative wine cellar in Eguilles was created in 1923 by Lucien Fauchier, a farmer and a man of letters. Today, it brings together the wine growers of a vineyard that totals 230 hectares and produces the COTEAUX of Aix-en-Provence and wines from the Bouches-du-Rhône region. The vineyard covers the municipalities of Eguilles, Aix-en-Provence, Ventabren, St-Cannat, Rognes and Lambesc. In the wine cellar of Eguilles you will find AOC representative wines and good wines from countries with a nice price. Citons, and also a wide range of Provençal products, olive oils, spreads, terrine, jams, honey, calissons, shuttles… In bottle or cubi. Let us not miss the harvest festival (participation in harvest and festive meals) in late September-early October, La Fête de la Vigne et du Vin in May and the Balades Maturity throughout the Year.

Confiserie d'Entrecasteaux is one of the oldest calissons factories in Aix. Founded in 1889 and acquired in 2013 by Irène and Serge Evans, the factory has moved from the rue d'Entrecasteaux in Aix to the Halles 1889 in Eguilles, in a setting dedicated to gastronomy. The workshop is visible from the store, which is a veritable gourmet showcase for the calissons. The range extends to other Provencal specialties, including navettes, dry cookies and Frédéric Lang's sublime pastries. To take away or enjoy on site in the tearoom.

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.

Doing your market like in the old days in covered halls, a pleasure that is given to us in the country of Aix in Eguilles in a contemporary industrial style. Around the central aisle, the stalls are lined up with beautiful products: fish, meat, fresh produce, cheese, two caterers - Italian and Asian -, a wine cellar, a pastry shop and the Confiserie d'Entrecasteaux calissons factory. You can do your shopping there but not only, since a tea room and 2 restaurants -La Cantina and le Comptoir d'Entrecasteaux- extend the stalls of the Halles. A multiple place which is not only dedicated to the pleasures of the palate, one meets there at the end of the week in Afterwork around musical animations (DJ groups), tapas and pizza.