THE PROVECALE DROME
OF ONE SEASON TO THE OTHER…

THE SUBTLE AND SECRET ALCHEMY…
Close the eyes: the soft and musky perfumes of the Provencal hills tell the history of the jonquil in love with lavender to the camphorated notec. Let - to drag you in the saraband of aromas and bouquets that, of the winter to the summer, celebrate the olive, the truffle, the grape, the almond…
Open the eyes: light runs and cheek on your skin, bounds then until the heart of the landscapes that it illuminates for you: insolent spectacle of beauty and mystery, between chiaroscuro and "sfumato" to the Italian,; the proudly perched villages overhang the valleys to the wild spaces: You are in Provencal Drôme, earth of inspiration of the painterc.
Make some steps: don't remain therefore on the doorstep, enter and benefit the cordial and traditional welcome of people of the country. Take a bench and taste with them the tapenade and the omelet to the truffles overflowing generously with the plate, a big glass of good wine, the one of which one says in the region,: it is the child of the earth and the man. Of the Drôme Provençale.

... FROM A RICH AND GENEROUS SOIL
Air
The sky of the Drôme Provençale is populated of flying creatures, fawn vultures and paraglidings punctuate the blue sky of their magic grace.
Hills and sheep
Since 5000 years before J.C. the landscape of the Drôme Provençale has been shaped by the presence of the sheep. A deep print that leads to the near high pastures.
Almonds and greeds
The sun of the spring warmed the hive, soon one will mix the precious honey and the almond, fruit of the gods, in a recipe that exists in Drôme Provençale since 1707,: the nougat
Vernal fragrances
Drôme is the first department of France in production of aromatic, medicinal plants and to perfume.
Numerous structures and circuits welcome and guide the visitors in their quest of olfactory sensationc.
For the most passionate, a casket - collection of the thirteen scents of the Drôme Provençale has been achieved.
Scents
In summer, the nature overflows with powerful and bewitching odorc. The one of the broom, honeyed and very floral delights vacationers and parfumeurc.
The nocturnal feasts in Grignan
The castle of the Marchioness of Sévigné high place of the rebirth, populate its nights of summer of sumptuous feastc

SUMMER
The days of market, the limes assemble around coffees to hear those that laugh or those that redo the world... And that speaks and that discusses! Regularly, the ice cubes ring in the glasses to signal the pausec. But to the just, why redo the world when it is already so beautiful, there, under the arbor and in the song of the cicadas
The hospitality like an art
The apricot ripened in the sun, under the arbor, around a good table, one lets itself go to the idleness, rocked by the song of the cicadas…
Wine-harvest
The fall is the witness of this powerful ritual who will see the birth of wine. All the air that one breathes is a plant breath of which one could eat.
Chanterelles, grisets and foam
"I tried to look for the mushrooms, but all smelled the mushroom. The odor could not serve me. Of times, I came back on my steps, touched by a syrupier scent. "I told to myself: you should have crushed a city of l foam."
Castle of Suze-LA-ROUSSE, wine in university
This fortress medieval, former bastion of the orange princes, welcome researchers and experts around the grapevine. A legitimate consecration for a region whose vineyard exists since 600 years before Jesus Christ.
The black diamond
The aroma of the truffle, this real olfactory call was worth to this mushroom to occupy a place of honor in the Provencal gastronomy. It is a rare commodity and very valued, its presence in an even runny omelet procures a unique sensation.
As lizard in the sun of the winter
The winter, one climbs under the sun of the micro - climates of the Drôme Provençale. Soon gray, soon blue the limestone invites us to escape the gravity.

WINTER
The sky clothes itself of its winter bruise coat and decorate himself of sun; because it is necessary to know, that here, the nature always makes itself, soft and tender, more welcoming, as to compensate the fact that elsewhere it makes cold and dry so. It is time to collect the fruit of the olive trees, to wake the truffles too long sleepy before marveling in bloom before the spectacle of the first almond-trees up…
The tench
It is to the first big cold weather that the olive arrives to perfect maturity. After preparation one will be able to taste it and will be able to appreciate its creaminess and its rich and gluttonous flaveur.
Olive oil
Among the products of the Drôme Provençale, the olive oil of Nyons possesses a real to can fascination. It is considered by the connoisseurs as the champagne of olive oilc.
A heritage to discover
With its three castles, its numerous perched villages, and its Romanesque churches the Drôme Provençale possesses a heritage exceptional structure that it will be necessary to browse patiently, stone after stone…