Gourmet products local specialties and wines Marais poitevin

At Vanessa Brard-Guignard, eating well is sacred! In her beautiful grocery store, you'll find everything you need to cook like a great chef. And rest assured, Vanessa has the recipe to select gourmet and refined products. With a healthy dose of good humor and not a little expertise, she'll help you discover her library of spices, salts, peppers, spreads, wines, syrups, teas... You can grab salads and sandwiches to take away, or enjoy in her souplex thanks to her catering offer. In a word: "from shelf to plate"!

It is around the love of cooking, gastronomy and also the aesthetics surrounding the art of the table, which met Isabelle and Mathieu. Fresh and seasonal products, classic classics and original creations, HMC Caterer offers a collection of delicacies, dishes, desserts and buffets. For professionals and individuals, whether for an intimate event or a public event, chefs will adjust their cuisine according to your desires and needs.

The former Coulon dairy is home to the famous Tête de mule, a delicious craft beer that has won multiple awards in various competitions and trade shows. The beautifully-labeled mule comes in a variety of humorous forms. There are those who can slap a face, and those who are strong-headed. These beers have character! Blonde, white, brown, since 2023 amber, IPA, triple, porter, pale ale, to each his own. Direct sales and tours of the brewery. In summer, stroll through the dairy's gourmet markets, which provide a musical and gourmet atmosphere!

Blandine and Laurent Cathala know how to pamper the gourmets in all of us. In their workshop-boutique, our senses are on the alert. In the windows, treasures to savor. Colorful macaroons in original flavors (lavender-honey or angelica), tempting pastries with chocolate, fruit... and why not both? Here, gourmandise is made up of small and large pleasures that change with the seasons. Nothing is off-limits, not even ice creams, chocolate bars and bonbons with grand cru, infused ganaches and pralines.

We've fallen in love with this new artisanal pastry-bakery in Luçon, with its elegant white façade and market bench. If you love éclairs, then this is the place to come: Alison won^2nd prize for best éclair in 2023! But that's not the only delicacy we love here. Everything is homemade and delicious! Generous traditional viennoiseries, fluffy brioche, creative pastries, entremets and chocolates, as well as a range of breads made with carefully selected flours.

A farm which ensures the force-feeding of fat ducks and the breeding of squabs. The duck livers are deveined and we advise you to taste them plain, fresh but not iced, accompanied by a mellow white wine. Forget the diet to taste the royal duck breast, a turnover of two duck breasts in which a foie gras has been cooked; the whole is eaten cold. As for the pigeon, it is also available in confits, gizzards, terrines and rillettes. You can also choose fresh squab, ready to cook, which you can cook yourself.

On the church square of Coulon, here is an excellent address to have a drink, a tea, to stroll, to taste a pancake, a waffle, and to buy some products from here and there in the cellar and the delicatessen of the shop. You are here at Jérémie's. It is this lover of the marsh who had the not-so-frozen idea to open this nice establishment, and that, all year long. You will find a modern decor and a very friendly welcome. And as the name suggests, don't forget to order a good homemade ice cream to refresh yourself.

At the Rosette des Prés, quality is the main priority. The products offered by Monsieur Chouc come from the Fenioux pig farm: the animals are reared in the open air, in full compliance with the Bleu Blanc Coeur Label specifications, with pigs fed on cereals, vegetable proteins and linseed which promote the intake of omega 3. The pork meats are made in the traditional way, in the respect of the cooking of the pig of yesteryear (stewed). Seven sales outlets are available under the L'heure du marché brand.

The Ferme du Marais Poitevin in Benet offers authentic immersion in the heart of Green Venice. This educational and vacation farm invites you to enjoy a unique experience in close contact with the animals on its 10-hectare estate. A range of accommodation options, including bed and breakfast and gypsy caravans, are available to extend this immersion experience. The farm also offers pitches for camper vans. In addition to visiting the farm, other activities include hiking, biking, boat trips and escape games. A store selling farm produce is also available.

The Vendelice melon is the fruit of a passion: that of the Bogers family, farmers for several generations, who by challenge innovated in the 1980s in the cultivation of melon in the Vendée. Their melon is produced on different sites in France (in Chaillé-les-Marais) and in Spain to ensure a distribution over more than 6 months of the year. To choose a melon, do the stalk test (the tail of the melon). It always comes off when the melon is ripe. Another alternative in summer, the mini black watermelon from Vendée that they also produce.

Fontenay-le-Comte offers wine lovers an address not to be missed: CAVAVIN. This wine shop offers a wide selection of wines, champagnes and spirits. The cellar works primarily with independent winegrowers, guaranteeing wines made with passion. Wine merchant Jean Luc ANGIBAUD will be delighted to advise you and help you make your choice.

Beers made according to the traditional method: neither pasteurized nor filtered and following a long fermentation and maturation process, favouring their aromatic richness. Several ranges: the Cibulle Originale, a gourmet beer with biscuit and fruit notes; the American Amber (amber, with toasted notes), the Abbaye de Nieul-sur-L'Autise is a light blonde with fruity aromas, the one called Abbaye de Maillezais is a triple with fruity aromas made in the great tradition of abbey beers. Possibility to visit the brewery !

Estelle and Christian Chabirand acquired this 20 ha estate in 1997. On this virgin terroir, outside the appellation, they planted a 15 ha organic vineyard (Ecocert). Christian, an oenologist by training, has accumulated experience by travelling to many vineyards in France, and was awarded the Loire Trophy for Vigneron de Caractère by the Gault et Millau guide in 2017. A long maceration vinification applied on a perfect quality of grapes allows to elaborate cuvées gardes called here nicely Vins de Mémoire.

The Mercier family has been dedicated to the wine tradition since 1890. They produce AOC Fiefs Vendee wines, vins de pays du Val de Loire and a cuvée using the traditional method. The 45 ha vineyard is planted on the clay and limestone terraces on the flinty outcrop of Vix. The development of the estate is intimately linked to the activity of the wine nursery whose know-how is recognised worldwide. Thanks to this, the estate benefits from a great diversity of varieties and selections, which gives their cuvées a beautiful complexity and signs the style of their wines.

La Clef des Champs, located in the rapidly expanding Bessines business park, is a spacious and pleasant organic store. Moreover, it is practical and well-stocked with more than 14,000 products, including 5,000 natural care products. Well organized and tidy, you can easily find your way among the many organic fresh products, organic grocery products, natural care products, ecological cleaning products and the culture and well-being section. The store also has an organic tea room to relax in, as well as a treatment room where speakers come.

Les Papys Gâteaux are two lively retired men, creators of Niort's first madeleine. Based in the former Coulon dairy, the former businessmen took on the challenge of revisiting the famous Commercy jewel. While the recipe is kept secret, we do know that it is distinguished by its local ingredients: AOP butter from Echiré, eggs from their own countryside and flour from Courçon. Not forgetting a hint of lemon, lovingly squeezed by hand. They wanted to have fun, and it shows: you too can have a bite and have a good time!

The store located in Mauzé, 25 min from Niort, offers a multitude of consumables and non-consumables. The Musketeers are proud to have chosen for you the best and cheapest. Dairy products, meat, fish, fruits and vegetables, preserves, cereals, cooked dishes, beverages, pizzas, cakes, sweets… In short, you will find everything you need!

Wine and champagne cellar. A vos papilles spent two decades in Languedoc-Roussillon before finally settling in Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon. Your wine merchants will introduce you to the vineyards and sun-drenched terroirs of the south of Montpellier, from the Sétois basin to the terraces of Larzac. Lovers of grape varieties from the Loire, Rhône and Champagne regions will not be left out... With wine tastings at La Minoteries, a royal raffle (free bubbly for every bean!), and regular deliveries of approachable to creative skittles, we're ready to go.

The Huvelin family business has been shining with its creations since 1963. A total of 59 types of chocolate bonbons, bouchées, tablettes, "carrés origines", pralines, ganaches and a hint of Pamplie salted butter, all prepared by hand. The establishment also works with the emblematic angelica, in its candied version, in jams, compotes and liqueurs obtained by maceration. What can I say? Oh yes, it's a Niort landmark: a visit is a must!

This Intermarché is a human-sized supermarket and is large enough to shop for a whole week. Prices are low and there is plenty of time for promotions on many items. The supermarket includes hardware shelves, small crockery, clothes, Cds and toys. Some items are available only during their season of use (such as summer chairs in summer, not worth searching for them in winter).