Gourmet products local specialties and wines La Montagnette

If olive oil is, of course, the flagship product of the Moulin de Barbentane, with an exceptional quality and a widely recognized flavor, there are also many by-products: anchovy paste, tapenades and many other things, equally delicious and even cosmetics. Originally a family building, the oil mill is now a real place where Jean Roche, master miller, produces olives in all their forms. The setting is warm and friendly and you can taste exceptional products. An unmissable stopover.

It has been nearly half a century since Francis Honoré and his wife, Jacqueline, planted the first trees in their huge fig orchard. At Mas de Luquet, on 12 hectares, dozens of varieties of figs are grown. While Jacqueline concocts sweet and savoury recipes, makes jams and condiments (vinegar, mustard...), Francis uses his baguette to convince amateurs to succumb to the temptation. A couple to meet urgently.

The site, planted with 5,200 olive trees, is simply splendid. It is the domain of Bernard and Antoine Foron, father and son, who produce a fruité vert and a fruité noir, in A.O.C. Provence. Two nectars that have won many awards and medals in recent years. These results are, of course, not the fruit of chance, but the effects of an immense passion for this profession. Their products are excellent, but also well presented in bottles that are true works of art. The Foron's also offer a guest house on their property.

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.