Château d’Estoublon

Beautiful winery and estate, with extensive lawns. I’m told the family lives in apartments on the estate, so I’m not certain how openly visitors are permitted to wander around, but the parts I viewed were magnificent. The surrounding area is also very picturesque, so the drive there was very nice.
Inside the tasting room, the staff was friendly and welcoming, but did not offer much information about the winery or wines. A bit unusual in my experience with both US and French wineries. The wines I tasted were good, but not as good of a value as other wineries in the same area. I tried their rose, white, red and 100% grenache. I normally do not prefer white wines but enjoyed the white here. They sell a variety of other products onsite. Many of these seemed gimmicky, but I bought some olives and tapenade, without tasting them first, these both turned out to be delicious. I wish we were offered tastings of the olive oil, as I suspect this was quite good as well. I enjoyed the wine I brought back from the winery, but everyone keeps asking me why I didn’t pick up more of the tapenade…

***Deux et demi étoiles***
One of the most beautiful places to see in the south. Large estate, growing olives and grapevines.
Sales area sold their olives (and oils), wines, etc. and various perfumes, tapenades, etc. But further along they had furniture, high-​end clothing?!
Eventually found an art gallery of sorts with quite beautiful modern pieces.
Great to see I could buy a mediocre wine, couch and 100 Euro rugby shirt.