Château Roubine

Château Roubine is the working vineyard outside Lorgues in the inland Var — the AOP Côtes de Provence production, the organic cellar work, the long tasting room that the locals have built into the rotation. The estate is the rare inland Var vineyard with the proper cellar tour programme and the most credible rosé production of the immediate area.

Book the morning cellar tour with the tasting, walk the vineyard rows, take a case of the rosé home. The address is the right Lorgues answer for the half-day vineyard visit that pairs with the Chez Bruno lunch nearby — and the kind of address that the long-stay Var regulars build the week around.

The Var vineyard morning before the Lorgues lunch.