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Red Wine

Bottles opened here : a corkage fee is added to the price of the bottle.

Vieilles Vignes

Famille Gras

An honest everyday red — the kind you open for no particular reason, because it is good and asks nothing of anyone. Old vines, unfussy winemaking, and a price that leaves the pleasure undisturbed.

Tasting
Ripe fruit, supple tannins, a clean finish with no heaviness.

At the table
Summer grills, a beef daube, a plate of charcuterie in the shade.

To take away 12,00 €

To enjoy here 12,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Grand Classique Rouge

Domaine Gavoty

The Gavoty family has farmed vines at Cabasse since 1806 — seven generations across fifty organically farmed hectares, on the clay-limestone soils of the upper Var. The Grand Classique is aptly named: it is the house wine, the one that shows what the estate can do.

Grape varieties
Syrah 95%, Cabernet 5%.

Tasting
A long maceration, some twenty days, giving a structured, deep wine built to wait three to five years.

At the table
Leg of lamb, duck breast, red meats with character.

To take away 15,00 €

To enjoy here 15,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Cuvée Mathieu

Bastides des Oliviers

The red cuvée from Bastides des Oliviers, a Provençal house we follow for the consistency of its wines and for what they cost — rarely one without the other.

Tasting
A straightforward, warm Provençal red, on black fruit and garrigue herbs.

At the table
Grilled meats, a vegetable tian, an aged sheep's cheese.

To take away 18,00 €

To enjoy here 18,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Romane

Château Mesclances

Château Mesclances works the Côtes de Provence at La Crau, between the hills and the sea. The Romane cuvée is its red expression: that of a terroir where the sun is frank and the wind constant.

Tasting
A red both sunlit and fresh, black fruit and garrigue notes, with melted tannins.

At the table
A cut of beef, rack of lamb with herbs, aged cheeses.

To take away 20,00 €

To enjoy here 20,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Chianti Rufina

Tenuta Lelli

Rufina is the smallest and highest of the Chianti zones — and the coolest. Its hills east of Florence yield tauter, brighter wines that age remarkably well. An Italian on a Provençal list: that is deliberate.

Tasting
Black cherry and violet, a frank acidity that holds the wine upright, fine tannins.

At the table
Pasta with tomato, a veal chop, an aged pecorino.

To take away 24,00 €

To enjoy here 24,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Lampe de Méduse Rouge

Château Sainte Roseline

Château Sainte Roseline is one of Provence's eighteen Crus Classés, classified since 1955, at Les Arcs-sur-Argens. Lampe de Méduse is its historic cuvée — created in 1950 and recognisable by its bottle, whose shape belongs to no one else.

Tasting
A Provençal red for keeping: black fruit, sweet spice, a tight but polished tannic frame.

At the table
Fillet of beef, a civet, hard-pressed cheeses.

To take away 26,00 €

To enjoy here 26,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Tradition

Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles

Bandol, twelve organically farmed hectares, and a house run since 1975 by Claude Férec-Jouve — whose father, Louis, was one of the appellation's pioneers. Tradition is the estate's everyday Bandol, insofar as a Bandol can be everyday.

Tasting
Mourvèdre speaks here: black fruit, pepper, leather, and that saline freshness which marks the wines of Bandol.

At the table
Daubes, lamb, feathered game, an aged Comté.

To take away 31,00 €

To enjoy here 31,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Les Hauts de Lafran

Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles

The estate's great cuvée, and one of the finest expressions of Mourvèdre in Bandol. Around eight thousand bottles a vintage: that is few, and the care shows.

Grape varieties
Mourvèdre 95%, Grenache 5%.

Tasting
An ample, dense, long palate with fine tannins — power held in check by elegance. Drink it now, or keep it several years without concern.

At the table
A rib of beef, duck, wild boar civet. Or nothing at all, at the end of a meal.

To take away 42,00 €

To enjoy here 42,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Alone

Domaine Alone · 2021

Made from 100% Grenache, half destemmed, this wine wears a brilliant ruby robe. Plot-by-plot vinification respects the identity of each lot, before ageing on fine lees in ceramic and porcelain spheres and in wooden foudres — a twin process that preserves the brightness of the fruit while building depth.

Grape varieties
Grenache 100%.

Tasting
A highly perfumed first nose: strawberry slow-cooked in the copper pot, violet, peony, lifted by light spice notes of Sichuan pepper. On the palate the delicacy of those perfumes meets a juicy, intense fruit, followed by a creamy, persistent finish.

At the table
Decant several hours before serving, at 16 to 18 °C. Grilled red meats, slow-cooked dishes, soft cheeses.

To take away 40,00 €

To enjoy here 40,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Beaune 1er Cru Les Theurons

2018

A premier cru of the Côte de Beaune, on the Theurons climat, on the slope above the town. Burgundian Pinot Noir, in a vintage already settled.

Tasting
Burgundian finesse: small red fruits, undergrowth, a silky texture and a length that stretches without weighing.

At the table
Roast poultry, boeuf bourguignon, mushrooms — and Époisses, if you dare.

To take away 60,00 €

To enjoy here 60,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Palette Rouge

Château Simone

Palette is one of the smallest appellations in France, and Château Simone is its name: the Rougier family has watched over it for nearly two centuries, on north-facing slopes of limestone scree. The vines average over fifty years of age, and some plots are more than a century old.

Grape varieties
Grenache 45%, Mourvèdre 30%, Cinsaut 5%, and 20% secondary varieties — Syrah, Castet, Manosquin, Carignan, various Muscats.

Winemaking
Harvest entirely by hand at full ripeness, with sorting; fermentation on indigenous yeasts, fifteen to twenty-one days on skins in small vats, pressing on vertical hydraulic presses. Ageing entirely in wood: eight months in small foudres, then a year in oak barrels of differing ages. Bottled unfiltered.

At the table
Large game, a cut of beef, aged cheeses. A wine for keeping — decant it.

To take away 67,00 €

To enjoy here 67,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Château de Beaucastel

Famille Perrin

One of the great wines of France, and a singularity: Beaucastel blends all thirteen historic grape varieties of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where almost everyone else stops at three or four. The Perrin family pioneered organic farming here from the 1950s, then biodynamics from the 1970s.

Grape varieties
Grenache and Mourvèdre in equal parts (30% each), Syrah 15%, Counoise 10%, Cinsault 5%, completed by Vaccarèse, Terret Noir, Muscardin, Clairette, Picpoul, Picardan, Bourboulenc and Roussanne.

Tasting
Each variety is hand-harvested separately and vinified apart, before blending and a year in foudres. The result is a wine of rare complexity, holding power, elegance and freshness together — and ageing magnificently.

At the table
Game, herb-crusted lamb, a truffle. Decant generously, or forget it in the cellar for ten years.

To take away 100,00 €

To enjoy here 100,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Clos

Domaine Castell-Reynoard

Castell Reynard's top cuvée, and the rarest bottle in our cellar. These are very small volumes, which we cannot always replace.

Tasting
A concentrated, built red that asks for time — in the glass as in the cellar.

At the table
Large cuts of meat, game, or an evening that isn't counting.

To take away 105,00 €

To enjoy here 105,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

White Wine

Bottles opened here : a corkage fee is added to the price of the bottle.

Pipi

La Ferme Saint-Pierre

The name raises a smile, and it is meant to. Behind the joke, a frank and thirst-quenching white from La Ferme Saint-Pierre, to be drunk cold without overthinking it.

Tasting
Bright, lemony, light — an aperitif white in the most agreeable sense.

At the table
Aperitif in the shade, a fresh goat's cheese, a tomato salad.

To take away 13,00 €

To enjoy here 13,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Grand Classique Blanc

Domaine Gavoty

The white from the Gavoty house at Cabasse, on the clay-limestone soils the family has worked since 1806 — fifty hectares farmed organically.

Tasting
A taut, floral Provençal white with a saline finish, holding its freshness even in the heat.

At the table
Grilled fish, a bouillabaisse, shellfish.

To take away 16,00 €

To enjoy here 16,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Saint Honorat Blanc

Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles

A white from Bandol, an appellation known above all for its reds and rosés — which is a pity, because its whites are rare and hold the table remarkably well.

Tasting
An ample, mineral white with citrus and white-flower notes, and a fine saline length.

At the table
Rockfish, sea bass grilled with fennel, seafood.

To take away 20,00 €

To enjoy here 20,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Rigoloccio

Montecalvo

An Italian white from Montecalvo, chosen for its character — it resembles none of its shelf neighbours, and that is exactly why it is here.

Tasting
Dry and aromatic, on white fruit with a noble bitterness on the finish.

At the table
Antipasti, a vegetable risotto, a fry of small fish.

To take away 20,00 €

To enjoy here 20,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Lampe de Méduse Blanc

Château Sainte Roseline

The white version of Château Sainte Roseline's historic cuvée, Cru Classé of the Côtes de Provence at Les Arcs-sur-Argens, in the same unmistakable bottle.

Grape varieties
Rolle (Vermentino) and Ugni Blanc.

Tasting
An elegant, fresh white, citrus and white flowers, with the saline tension of well-made Provençal whites.

At the table
Fish baked in a salt crust, oysters, a burrata.

To take away 23,00 €

To enjoy here 23,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Vermentino

Tenuta Lelli

Vermentino, or Rolle on our side of the Mediterranean: it is the same grape, and on both shores it gives saline, digestible whites. This one comes from Tenuta Lelli, in Tuscany.

Grape varieties
Vermentino.

Tasting
A nose of citrus and fresh almond, a lively palate, a lightly bitter finish — the variety's signature.

At the table
Seafood, spaghetti alle vongole, grilled fish with lemon.

To take away 24,00 €

To enjoy here 24,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Bandol Blanc

Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles

The white from Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles: twelve organically farmed hectares at Bandol, run since 1975 by Claude Férec-Jouve. Whites make up a tiny share of the appellation's output — this one is worth seeking out.

Tasting
A precise, saline white, on white flowers and citrus, with enough substance to carry a dish.

At the table
Mediterranean fish, fish soup, shellfish.

To take away 26,00 €

To enjoy here 26,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Paternel Blanc

Domaine du Paternel

Cassis is one of the oldest appellations in France, and one of the few where white dominates. The vines cling to a handkerchief of land between the cliffs and the sea, twenty minutes from here — this is quite literally the wine of our calanques.

Tasting
An ample, perfumed white, notes of fennel, citrus and almond, carried by a frank salinity.

At the table
Bouillabaisse — the canonical pairing — sea urchins, grilled red mullet.

To take away 29,00 €

To enjoy here 29,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Le Grand Blanc

Château Revelette

Château Revelette, high in the Coteaux d'Aix, is farmed organically by Peter Fischer, a German who fell for Provence forty years ago. Le Grand Blanc is his barrel-aged cuvée: an ambitious white, and nothing like a summer wine.

Tasting
A white for the table, rich and taut at once, marked by its ageing without being crushed by it. It gains from being served not too cold, and it ages.

At the table
Poultry in cream, fish in sauce, sweetbreads, an aged Comté.

To take away 39,00 €

To enjoy here 39,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

For My Dad Blanc

Domaine Castell-Reynoard

A cuvée whose name tells a family story. Castell Reynard's white, in small volumes, for those who want to leave the beaten track.

Tasting
A white with character, ample and worked, with a long finish.

At the table
Fish in sauce, poultry, aged goat's cheeses.

To take away 44,00 €

To enjoy here 44,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Palette Blanc

Château Simone

Château Simone's white, in the Palette appellation — one of the smallest in France. North-facing slopes, limestone scree soils, vines averaging over fifty years, some over a century. This is one of the great whites of the South, and it ages as few others do.

Grape varieties
Clairette dominant, completed by Grenache Blanc, Ugni Blanc, Bourboulenc and Muscat à Petits Grains.

Tasting
A white of unusual depth: white flowers, dried fruit, wax and honey with age, over a saline frame that never lets go.

At the table
Lobster, a noble fish in sauce, sweetbreads. Serve it around 12 °C, no colder.

To take away 67,00 €

To enjoy here 67,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Rully

Rully, in the Côte Chalonnaise, produces Chardonnay whites that offer a share of Burgundian elegance without the Burgundian price. It is one of the region's good deals, and less and less of a secret.

Tasting
A frank, buttery Chardonnay with citrus and hazelnut notes, held together by its acidity.

At the table
Poultry in cream, fish in sauce, snails.

Corkage fee 5,00 €

Puligny-Montrachet

One of the most prestigious names in Chardonnay anywhere in the world, on the Côte de Beaune. These are whites for keeping, chiselled, and their reputation owes nothing to chance.

Tasting
Remarkable purity and tension: citrus, white flowers, a chalky minerality and an endless finish.

At the table
Lobster, sole meunière, a Bresse chicken. Serve around 12 °C, in large glasses.

To take away 89,00 €

To enjoy here 89,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Rosé Wine

Bottles opened here : a corkage fee is added to the price of the bottle.

Cuvée Justine

Bastides des Oliviers

The rosé from Bastides des Oliviers: the one we happily serve by the pool, because it does exactly what is asked of it, and does it well.

Tasting
Pale, dry, on fresh red fruit with a clean finish. Refreshing without being hollow.

At the table
Aperitif, a salade niçoise, grills, a pissaladière.

To take away 14,00 €

To enjoy here 14,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Grand Classique Rosé

Domaine Gavoty

The rosé from Domaine Gavoty at Cabasse, long farmed organically across fifty hectares of clay and limestone. Seven generations of know-how in a plain-looking bottle.

Tasting
A serious Provençal rosé: pale robe, a nose of white peach and citrus, a dry and long palate with more substance than most.

At the table
The whole of Provençal cooking — tian, aïoli, grilled fish, tomatoes.

To take away 15,00 €

To enjoy here 15,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Atmo

Domaine Alone

Domaine Alone's entry rosé, in the orbit of the Ott family. A rosé made for the table as much as for the aperitif.

Tasting
Delicate and floral, with fine freshness and the precision that marks the house.

At the table
Summer starters, grilled fish, a vegetable tart.

To take away 18,00 €

To enjoy here 18,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Lampe de Méduse Rosé

Château Sainte Roseline

The best known of the three: Château Sainte Roseline's historic cuvée, Cru Classé since 1955, in its inimitable bottle. This is a rosé for gastronomy, not for the beach.

Grape varieties
Grenache Noir 36%, Cinsault 28%, Mourvèdre 20%, Tibouren 9%, Carignan 3%, Syrah 2%, Caladoc and Rolle for the remainder.

Tasting
Very pale robe, a nose of white fruit and citrus, an ample and structured palate, a long saline finish.

At the table
Grilled sea bass, bouillabaisse, cold poultry, fresh cheeses.

To take away 22,00 €

To enjoy here 22,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Bandol Rosé

Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles

Bandol rosé is a category of its own: denser, more vinous, built on Mourvèdre. This one, from Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles and its twelve organic hectares, is a faithful reading of it.

Tasting
A deeper colour than classic Provençal rosés, an ample and spicy palate, real length.

At the table
It carries a whole meal: fish in sauce, white meats, spiced cooking, tagines.

To take away 24,00 €

To enjoy here 24,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Sable Rosé

Domaine Alone

Domaine Alone's top rosé. The name tells you the terroir, and the wine tells you the care.

Tasting
A rosé at once delicate and deep, with a finish that stretches — a wine to drink at the table, in a proper glass.

At the table
Lobster, a fish carpaccio, cold roast poultry.

To take away 27,00 €

To enjoy here 27,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Conterno Rosé

Cantine Nervi

An Italian rosé from Cantine Nervi, in Piedmont — Nebbiolo country, a grape almost never made as rosé. It is a curiosity, and a good one.

Tasting
Brighter and tauter than Provençal rosés, on redcurrant and rose, with an acid frame that wakes you up.

At the table
Charcuterie, a white pizza, a risotto, confit tomatoes.

To take away 32,00 €

To enjoy here 32,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

For My Dad Rosé

Domaine Castell-Reynoard

The rosé counterpart of the Castell Reynard cuvée, in small volumes. A winemaker's rosé rather than a seasonal one.

Tasting
A rosé of substance, worked, with a persistent finish — a wine more than a colour.

At the table
Fish in sauce, a paella, grilled white meats.

To take away 38,00 €

To enjoy here 38,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Champagne

Bottles opened here : a corkage fee is added to the price of the bottle.

Bergère 75 cl

A. Bergère

A family house, chosen for the ratio between what it gives and what it costs: a true grower's champagne, far from the grandes marques and their advertising budgets.

Tasting
A fine bead, a nose of white fruit and brioche, a frank and refreshing palate.

At the table
Aperitif, oysters, a lightly sweetened dessert — or to mark the occasion, which remains its first vocation.

To take away 39,00 €

To enjoy here 39,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Bergère 37,5 cl

A. Bergère

The same house in a half-bottle — the format everyone looks for and nobody finds. Two glasses, without opening a whole bottle.

Tasting
A fine bead, a nose of white fruit and brioche, a frank and refreshing palate.

At the table
An aperitif for two, a breakfast out of the ordinary, a piece of good news.

To take away 25,00 €

To enjoy here 25,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Charles Heidsieck

Founded at Reims in 1851 by Charles-Camille Heidsieck — the "Champagne Charlie" who introduced champagne to the Americans — the house is renowned for the generosity of its reserve wines, often very old. That is what gives it this deep, vinous style, recognisable among a thousand.

Tasting
A rare richness and patina: dried fruit, pastry, notes of undergrowth, over a bead of great finesse.

At the table
A champagne for the table, not only the aperitif: roast poultry, fish in sauce, hard cheeses.

To take away 55,00 €

To enjoy here 55,00 € + 5,00 € (corkage)

Olive Oils

Virgilia 25 cl

Domaine de Souviou

Extra virgin olive oil — PDO Provence.

A selection of plump, flavourful olives typical of Provence, grown organically at Domaine de Souviou in Le Beausset — four kilometres from the Mas. An exceptional green fruity oil, a fine companion to salads and seasonal vegetables.

Varieties
Aglandau, Bouteillan, Cayon, Picholine.

Tasting
Grassy aromas, fresh almond and artichoke. Bitter and peppery. An exceptional, balanced green fruitiness.

At the table
Ideal on a plate of sun-ripened vegetables, a fennel salad, a fresh goat's cheese.

To take away 13,50 €

To enjoy here 13,50 €

Virgilia 50 cl

Domaine de Souviou

To take away 25,00 €

To enjoy here 25,00 €

Plinia 25 cl

Domaine de Souviou

Extra virgin olive oil — PDO Provence.

Its perfumed, peppery taste gives this ripe fruity oil an originality that will lift your summer salads. This delicate blend of thirteen olive varieties reflects the very essence of the Souviou terroir at Le Beausset, four kilometres from the Mas.

Varieties
Aglandau, Cailletier, Grossane, Verdale, Bouteillan, Cayon, Picholine, Frantoio, Moraiolo, Tanche, Salonenque, Casalive.

Tasting
Soft and unctuous, with grassy notes, artichoke and hazelnut. Fine pepperiness, peppery finish.

At the table
Your summer salads, a pan of vegetables, fresh pasta with basil, a fillet of John Dory.

To take away 13,50 €

To enjoy here 13,50 €

Plinia 50 cl

Domaine de Souviou

To take away 25,00 €

To enjoy here 25,00 €

Selvatica 25 cl

Domaine de Souviou

Extra virgin olive oil — PDO Provence.

This perfumed, delicate green fruity oil is the result of meticulous work around the thousand-year-old olive trees of Domaine de Souviou — the estate counts two hundred of them among seven thousand trees. A concentrate of flavour and history.

Variety
Single-variety "Brun", from the estate's thousand-year-old trees.

Tasting
Green fruitiness with grassy aromas, cut leaves and fresh almond. Unctuous, with fine bitterness and a peppery finish.

At the table
A beetroot and orange salad, a salmon steak, a mushroom risotto.

To take away 15,00 €

To enjoy here 15,00 €

Selvatica 50 cl

Domaine de Souviou

To take away 27,50 €

To enjoy here 27,50 €

Fruité Noir 20 cl

Domaine de Souviou

Virgin olive oil.

Its "old-style" taste comes from the fermentation of a selection of olives picked fully ripe in December. Stored for ten days in small twenty-kilo crates at 18 °C, they are then crushed. An unfiltered oil, produced at Domaine de Souviou in Le Beausset.

Varieties
Predominantly Picholine, Cailletier.

Tasting
Intense, evolved aromas of black olive, tapenade and cocoa. Round and unctuous on the palate, with very low pepperiness and bitterness.

At the table
A goat's cheese, a gazpacho, a pumpkin velouté, poultry with mushrooms or truffle.

To take away 17,00 €

To enjoy here 17,00 €

Honeys

Miel de garrigue

An organic garrigue honey: from the hills around us, where thyme, rosemary and savory grow without anyone having planted them. Every harvest differs from the last, because the flowering never repeats itself exactly.

Tasting
Amber, frank, with the warm notes of aromatic herbs. Less sweet on the palate than most honeys.

At the table
On toast, in a herbal tea, or with a sheep's cheese — the pairing is better than you would imagine.

To take away 10,00 €

To enjoy here 10,00 €

Miel de châtaignier

An organic chestnut honey, the exact opposite of acacia: dark, powerful, almost bitter on the finish. A honey for those who do not care for honeys that are too sweet.

Tasting
Very dark robe, woody and tannic aromas, an elegant bitterness that lingers.

At the table
On country bread, with a blue cheese, or in plain yoghurt.

To take away 10,00 €

To enjoy here 10,00 €

Miel de lavande

The Provençal honey par excellence, organic as well. Its creamy texture and its scent are immediately recognisable — it is the taste of the high plateaux of Provence in July.

Tasting
Pale, creamy, deeply perfumed, with a floral sweetness that masks nothing.

At the table
Breakfast, a fresh cheese, vanilla ice cream. And in an infusion, in the evening.

To take away 12,00 €

To enjoy here 12,00 €

Jams

Confiture d'abricot

A house jam, cooked in small batches — the one you find at breakfast, and the one we are asked for often enough that we set some aside.

Tasting
Whole pieces of fruit, little sugar, the acidity of the apricot preserved.

At the table
Morning toast, a tart, plain yoghurt. Or a spoonful standing at the cupboard.

To take away 5,00 €

To enjoy here 5,00 €