Created in 1904, located at the foot of the medieval village Le Castellet, one of the most beautiful villages in France, La Vivonne has an area of 25 hectares, 13 ha in AOP Bandol and 12 ha in AOP Côtes de Provence. Our estate benefits from the exceptional climate of the South of France. Our production is focused on red in Bandol and rosé in Côtes-de-Provence. All our wines are kept: from 3 to 5 years for the rosés and from 7 to at least 15 years for the reds. Our grape varieties are: The Rolle or Vermentino for our Côtes de Provence Blanc cuvée. No white Bandol before 2 years, this one requiring an assembly and at least the 5th leaf, our vines of Clairettes are still a little young. Cinsault, Grenache and the King of AOP Bandol, Mourvèdre. The vines are 3 to 75 years old and the yield is 28 to 35 hectoliters per hectare, depending on the year. In 2011, Michel BENHAIM bought the Estate, undertook modernization works and renamed the Château in order to enhance the work and the constraints imposed by the Bandol appellation: Traditional cultivation is practiced there, the land is plowed and the vines are roadway with winter furrow in November. Bandol obliges, the vines are desuckered and effruited to leave only one bunch per vine shoot, then the harvest is harvested by hand. No use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers since 1987. We are independent winegrowers, HVE 3 certified since 2020, and in organic farming since 2021. We have one of the most beautiful Red Wine Shops in Bandol dating back to 1979. Our wines have won medals and been selected many times (“Competition of Independent Winegrowers”, “Guide Hachette des Vins”, “Gault et Millau”, Wine Enthusiast, etc.) have been published in the specialized professional press ( “La Revue du Vin de France”, “La Revue des Sommeliers”, and many others… We will be pleased to welcome you if your steps lead you to us….

In the heart of Bandol, Domaine de Cagueloup invites you to discover wines of character, true reflections of an exceptional terroir and a savoir-faire passed down with passion. Each cuvée is crafted for the pleasure of sharing, combining freshness, generosity and authenticity.
Let yourself be seduced by the spirit of Cagueloup, where wine tells a story.

Owned by Reynald Delille, son of the Domaine's founder, and Jean d'Arthuys, a media man and entrepreneur with a passion for wine, the Domaine is now considered one of the finest in the South of France. It tirelessly pursues its quest for excellence. With 35 hectares of vines planted on terraces facing the Mediterranean Sea and organically farmed, Domaine de Terrebrune produces wines whose identity and character are forged by this magical Trias terroir and Bandol's king grape variety, Mourvèdre. The strong personality of Terrebrune comes from the successful alchemy of several elements. A very strict Bandol AOC that pushes for the best; an exceptional terroir, the Trias massif, an outcrop of the sea bed 220 million years ago, characterized on the surface by limestone pebbles in a brown clay that inspired the Domaine's name; and a subsoil made of these famous fissured limestone rocks into which the vines plunge to assimilate their mineral trace elements. The estate's vineyards are organically cultivated to preserve the organic life of the soil and encourage natural grass cover. Every effort is made to respect the ecology of the vines and soils. In winter, sheep and goats act as natural weedkillers by grazing between the vines. Treatments are environmentally friendly: no insecticides or synthetic products.

Domaine la Suffrène is an estate rooted deep in history. 

For centuries, the generations have succeeded one another with a single mission: extracting the best of this wonderful Provencal terroir, and passing on this treasure and their passion to their children. 

Fast-forward to the present, and you find Cédric Gravier, born in the nearby city of Marseille in 1973. As a typical city dweller, and with no real attraction for this rather agricultural way of life, he used to come over to visit his grand-parents during week-ends and school holidays. Taking up his legacy didn’t cross his mind until his spent a year abroad just after high-school. This is when he realized the richness of his heritage, and the unique impact of French culture and way of life across the world. Further travels finished to anchor a certainty in his mind: he wanted to invest himself in his heritage, and continue the family history. 

After studying wine-making and viticulture, Cedric took over the estate in 1996, then aged 23. The production, which until then had been sent to the local winemaking cooperative, got a new lease on life with the addition of a modern wine cellar. 

20 years later, the estate now spreads on 50 hectares of vineyard and olive groves. As is common on the Bandol appellation, the vines grow on a number of varied plots, located for the most part around the medieval villages of Le Castellet and La Cadière d’Azur. With red wines as the flagship of La Suffrène, Mourvedre is the main varietal used. It grows, alongside vines of Grenache, Cinsault, Carignan, Vermentino and Ugni Blanc, on an ancient bedrock of clay and limestone. The plots, facing south and the nearby Mediterranean Sea, enjoy over 3000 hours of sun per year. They are lined with “restanques”, these small dry-stone walls which are a feature of our landscape and our culture. The Mistral wind helps maintaining a perfectly healthy climate in the vineyard. 

The Bandol appellation production specification are demanding: Mourvedre as the main varietal, a maximum yield of 40HL/Ha, mandatory hand-made harvest, reds made from vines at least 8 years old, and raised at least 18 month in big oak barrels (often over 50HL) called “foudres”... All this hard work pays, allowing us to produce high quality wines, with a great ageing potential. Our red wines have a powerful nose, are rich in black fruits and spices notes, with a complex mouthfeel, structure and balance. They stand out with their notes of black fruit which, with time, will develop on aromas of leather and undergrowth. 

The roses are resolutely gastronomic. Fruity, intense, complex and aromatic, they can be enjoyed throughout the year and can be left to age in bottle to discover more complex tertiary aromas. 

As for our white, expressive and elegant, it is a rare charmer, on notes of white flowers, citrus, and exotic fruits. 

Cédric has always been mindful of the environment and the quality of his vineyard. For the past 15 years, cultural practices at La Suffrène have been similar to organic farming. In 2018, we started the process of official conversion, and our wines are certified organic since the vintage 2021. At the same time, we applied and obtained the HVE level 4 certification in 2019. 

Le Galantin estate was ceated in 1972, by Achille and Liliane PASCAL. Their small property first produced 12HL of BANDOL rosé. 50 years later, the estate has grown,  the cellar has been modernized, the commercial circuit has been developed.

The sun-drenched terraced vineyards stretch between the Sainte-Baume mountain and the Mediterranean Sea, under the charming village of Le Castellet.

At the Domaine, Céline (the sister) and Jérôme (the brother) work to keep the typicality of Bandol Wine: Red, Rosé and

White.  They cultivate the famous BANDOL grape varieties: Mourvèdre, Grenache and Cinsault.The Mourvèdre grape 

variety, emblematic of the BANDOL appellation, allows them to produce excellent red Bandol wines for aging.

After their parents, Céline and Jérôme run the family estate with unchanged strive for quality and passion for Wine.

The red, rosé and white wines of Domaine le Galantin are recognized in France, Europe and the world.

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The story begins in 1288!

Since the 13th century the Constant family has been cultivating vines, their know-how passed from generation to generation.

“Our ancestors cultivated the vines in the traditional way, by plowing and respecting the environment. Today we apply these same organic farming techniques and our wines are certified AB by ECOCERT. »

In 1970 Raymond and Jeanne, who until then vinified their wines in small cellars (five in total) in the vineyards, decided to build a cellar in order to simplify the work and to be able to give more time to their cuvées; the Domaine Ray-Jane will be born at this time.

Their cellar is made up of French oak barrels between one and a hundred years old, to which are added a few barrels and half-muids for the Insolite cuvée. This wide range of containers allows them to structure their wine in different ways with more or less long wooden passages which allow them to create a unique wine in their image.

Their son Alain will join them in the adventure followed by his wife Anne. Between them they perpetuate the work and endeavor to produce quality wines, typical of the Bandol appellation in which they register their know-how. They will continue over the years to make the place attractive and pleasant and will develop the family museum created by Raymond (more than thirty thousand rooms dedicated to the wine world) in order to welcome passing customers or loyal ambassadors who love their wines.

Today and for several years now, the new generation, represented by their two sons Julien (vineyard manager) and Vincent (cellar master), is committed to continuing the story of Ray-Jane.

Our vineyard shaped over time is made up of more than a third of century-old vines on about forty hectares of land staged in dry stone terraces (Provençal terraces) in a natural amphitheater that descends towards the Mediterranean Sea facing south. , made up essentially of Mourvèdre, the king grape variety of the Bandol appellation. The predominantly clay-limestone and Falun soils give wines full of finesse and elegance.

The plots of the estate extend over the municipalities of Castellet, Cadière d'Azur, Bandol, Sanary sur Mer and Beausset.

In addition to Mourvèdre, the Grenache, Carignan, Syrah, Cinsault, Ugni Blanc and Clairette grape varieties are present in the production of our exceptional wines.

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