Olive oil producers Rhônes-Alpes

This estate has been in the same family for six generations. A century ago, wheat was the main crop. Then crops diversified. Today, olive groves, vineyards, orchards and market gardens occupy the land. Domaine des Arches offers a wide range of fruit and vegetables, not forgetting Nyons oil, table olives, fruit juices, jams and Côtes-du-Rhône wines, all available direct from the small roadside store next to the farm.

The Richard family has been working with olives since 1885. The first mill in Nyons was inaugurated in 1922. Then came the move to Aouste-sur-Sye in 1958, and finally the inauguration of the new Montoison mill, dedicated to walnuts and rapeseed, in 2006, with its direct sales boutique. Huilerie Richard now has 19 truck stores, 10 stores and 4 mills. The know-how and rigorous extraction methods used to produce our oils have remained unchanged for 140 years. In the Drôme region, you can buy direct in Montoison, next to the mill dedicated to the production of roasted walnuts, hazelnuts and rapeseed, but also in Aouste-sur-Sye in a pretty stone store, and finally in Nyons, in the store next to the olive oil mill. Come and discover the expertise of an Artisan Moulinier at the Montoison Boutique, where you'll be told the story of the Maison Richard during a tasting session at the oil bar, followed by a tour of the mill. A fascinating and gourmet immersion.

Alongside olive oil, the ancestral star, and olive by-products, the company has expanded its range to include gourmet oils, a host of sweet and savoury grocery products, as well as spreads and other gourmet products. L'huilerie Richard has also thought of your well-being with a fine selection of beauty and home products. For a unique experience, take a seat at the oil bar and dare a tasting!

The Brès farm, with its 1,900 olive trees of the tanche variety, is at the heart of the Nyons protected designation of origin zone. For six generations, the tanche has been worked to make PDO Nyons table olives and black olive paste called "affinade" as well as PDO olive oil, olivade, a green tanche olive paste with garlic and basil, and a tapenade made from Nyons olives flavoured with organic dried tomato. You will find these products for sale directly from the farm all year round and at local markets.

René Bayle took over the family business in 1995. With his 500 olive trees, cultivated using integrated farming methods, he produces three oils: a Nyons PDO, 1 single variety of tanche and 1 single variety of fruité vert verdale. Between 500 and 600 suppliers come to his mill on a continuous basis. From 200 kg, they can take away their own oil. The mill's added bonus: it's entirely heated with olive stone residues.

Vincent's Oil Mill, located in Payzac, is in the front row of the most beautiful square in Les Vans. Nestled on the Place de la Fontaine, in a 17th century house, the store offers oils, tapenades and cosmetics from the mill; other local products, including flavored oils, honeys, or jams complete the list of delicacies. You will also discover the work of the olive growers. Possible tasting and visit in the afternoon.

The last factory of scourtins (circular filters used for oil extraction) in France is in Nyons, where Ferdinand Fert founded it in 1882. Although the freeze of 1956 nearly bankrupted this craft, today Frédérique and Arnaud Fert, his great-grandchildren, continue to make them as decorative objects. In their workshop, still using coconut fiber, they make scourtins that will become interior mats, bath mats, trivets or place mats. And don't miss the beautiful store.

The Espace Vignolis houses the store dedicated to the sale of its production with its tasting counter (oil, spreads and wines) as well as other local products, a museum of the olive tree (free visit) and an exhibition gallery. You will discover around the stone millstone and various presses, the instruments formerly used for the extraction of the oil and its conservation. A greedy and fascinating stopover. Many offers on the Internet.

" We have a green thumb in the family ". It is undoubtedly thanks to this predisposition that Jean-Noël Berneau, a teacher by trade, has planted 20 hectares of olive trees on the steep lands of his Ardèche estate without any problem. About thirty varieties are thus present, forming a veritable conservatory of Ardèche varieties. Only about fifteen varieties are dedicated to the production of single variety oils. The estate is now in organic farming.

No, it is not a flour mill! It is olive oil that is at stake, and it is the fourth generation of the Froment family that is passionate about this production, but also the collections of bicycles and old vehicles presented to the public. The ancestral mill from 1900, one of the few mills in the south of France to have survived the harsh winter of 1956, gave way in 2009 to a new modern equipment, and it is now Alain Froment who is in charge. His Alpine granite millstone extracts extra virgin, green and black fruity oil, although the house specialty remains the ripe fruity. The crushing is done with a stone millstone, which allows a slow and soft extraction, in order to preserve the gustative and aromatic qualities of the fruits. Made with different local varieties of olives (rougette de l'Ardèche, négrette, béchude, dorée, l'ubac and blanche de Payzac), these oils are rich in aromas. Depending on the year, a hundred tons or more of olives are crushed. A must in Les Vans. At the Concours Général Agricole, organized every year during the Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris, in early March 2022, the olive oil from the Froment mill in Les Vans won a gold medal. Do not hesitate to discover the store, located on the spot, where you will be able to buy the artisanal olive oil of the Froment family, some derived products, and multiple products of the soil and the regional products.

In the middle of the old presses and millstones, the old mill now houses the shop. A state of the art mill allows us to crush the olives within three days of harvesting and to produce a range of extra virgin Nyons PDO oils, from the sweetest to the fruitiest. A video recounting the four seasons of the olive, a shop where you can stock up on home-made olive oil and a multitude of other local products awaits you.

The estate covers almost 150 hectares, 15 of which are devoted to arboriculture. The olives harvested have the Nyons PDO label, and are used in confectionery for the smaller fruits, and in the olive oil press. Its light green fruity taste is ideal for eating raw. You can also taste the Aumage's other products on site: apricot nectar, jam and spread, cherry nectar and lavender honey. Gîte and restaurant available on reservation.

With her 1,000 olive trees, from different varieties, Florence Cheyrezy harvests each year nearly 6 tons of olives transformed into four single variety oils, fruité vert or fruité mûr. In addition, there is an oil from an old orchard whose variety has not been determined. You can visit the facility and the olive grove of the Fontaine du Muletier estate. You can also bring your own olives to have your oil pressed (from 50 kg).

Florian Charrasse took over the family business 7 years ago. In addition to apricot, cherry and vine trees, he looks after the thousand trees planted by his grandfather after the frost of 1956. Half of these trees have a single trunk (a detour to his olive grove is well worthwhile). His olives are pressed at the Moulin Chauvet, an old-fashioned mill, to produce Nyons PDO oil. The rest is reserved for PDO Nyons table olives and tapenade. These products are available directly from the farm.

Violaine and Pierre Trollat have been farming the olive trees on the family land for eleven generations since 1978. That is 4 hectares and nearly a thousand trees. The Trollats have also expanded their plantation by adding nearly 950 young olive trees. With the fruits, harvested in December and January, are made table olives AOP Nyons (put in brine with Guerande salt), oil also AOP Nyons and tapenade. Don't hesitate to come and visit us!

The syndicat de l'olive de Nyons promotes olive oil and black olives from Nyons and the surrounding area, which has been stamped with an AOC (tanche variety) since 1994. It supports the producers of the sector who are grouped in about fifty communes of the Drôme and the Vaucluse. The union organizes key events, notably the Olivades in July. Conferences are also given, notably on the diseases that can affect olive trees.