Bandol and Riviera Wine Tours, Provence

12/05/2026

What a fantastic event. The only wine festival in the world just for rosé.

14/10/2025

12/10/2025

The tragic white chapel of the Chateau de Bellet, of the AOP Bellet, dedicated to the young 22 year old wife of the Baron of Bellet, Agnes, who died in childbirth in 1871.

04/10/2025

Vintage 2025 Bandol mourvèdre going in the press courtesy of the wonderfully charming Jean-Luc Dumoutier at Olivette.

25/08/2025

Everyone is flat out getting in the harvest. An amazing time to visit the family run vineyards of Bandol to see the actual creation of wine in action, including the best rosé in the world!

Best wishes to all the very special Vignerons of Bandol for the harvest!

13/06/2025

At the Chateau croix d'Allons. So beautiful here and lovely wines too!

10/05/2025

09/05/2025

At the fantastic Just Rosé festival in Sanary-Sur-Mer. 72 stands of the very best rosé wines in the world!
They really make an incredible effort.

27/01/2025

Awarded 2025 Best Coastal Wine Tour Operator of all of France.

Happy with that, but how far inland is coastal?!?

10/12/2024

The Domaine de Fregate is a most modest team. With the Hotel Dolce de Fregate (the nearest to Bandol) in the late 80s the hotel and golf course there was constructed (it's 3D golf being so hilly and I believe on the pga circuit) which was completed in 1992.

The first inaugural shot on the golf course was none less than Alan Shepard himself. Second man in space, first American in space, also in Apollo 14.

Who played golf on the moon.

So cool, super cool(!) and when I say modest this is in absolutely none of the Hotel promotional whatsoever. Not their genre I guess!

Apollo 14 Commander and original Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to fly in space, tees off on the lunar surface during his 1971 mission, w...