Best of Provence Road Trip, Wine Tasting, Lavender Fields, Gorges du Verdon, Visit Provence France

Hello everyone! Today we will drive among beautiful roads of Provence, snacking between olive groves, wine yards, lavender fields. We will stop on our way for wine tasting and we will visit a beautiful breathtaking Gorge de Verdun. We checked out from the hotel this morning and before we go home we wanted to spend the whole day enjoying these beautiful landscapes. We fell in love with the beauty of Provence many many years ago. So let's spend a pleasant day in the nature. We drive to just a few minutes from the village Moustier-Saint-Marie and we already decided to stop by this beautiful chapel that we just saw on the road. It reminds me a beautiful work of a famous french painter Paul Cézanne who was born in Aix-en-Provence and he made a lots of beautiful paintings. So this area reminds me his work House in Provence. Well I'm not sure if we will stop every few minutes. We will get back home by this evening but you don't feel time here in Provence. Chris collected oregano which we don't have much around our village so we will take it home and dry. We have an appointment now for wine tasting. So next stop gonna be a Domaine de Valcolombe and we're gonna try some good wine to taste a wine like this you know when it's a small domain wine yard. It's better sometimes to make an appointment. Oh so beautiful! The weather is perfect. It's so sunny. We are still in the beginning of July and the weather is perfect. The sky is blue. You hear the cicadas everywhere. It's almost 11 a.m but it seems like nobody is here. So we're gonna check around and see if we will find the owners. We heard about this domain before and we also checked in google all domains on our way and we choose this one because it's small. There's some big wine yards where you can go with the wine tours. You will probably pay for wine tasting so it would be for me would be more commercial which you don't feel here. We ring the bell and we are waiting for someone to show up. Historically specializing in Rosé, Provence has a old wine growing history. Among with the other popular wine regions of France like Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace, the Provence has started to produce in recent years the best Rosé in the country. Provence also produces some high quality red wine. It would be strong, well-rounded and refreshing and very aromatic white wines and also excellent sparkling Rosé. We found the owners and the wife went with us to open the boutique. We tried an excellent wines while the owner was explaining us all about their wine. We came here for white wine so we choose an excellent white wine and we took a whole box. There are another visitors came after us and now it's her husband taking care of them. This couple manage everything by themselves. Did you say you come from Montreux? Yes, we live in Gorbure, a small village. We are in Fellini. Fellini is Italian. Yes, yes, yes. We are at the end of the mountain. It's the sea, isn't it? We eat well there. Have you ever been there? Yes, I think so. It's Italian. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, maybe. Maybe it's there that I saw you. Yes, maybe. Yes, we have been there. Yes, for sure. Because it takes both the V or the big Q. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, it's true. Great. Thank you very much. Goodbye. Expo, art and wine. Yes. That was such a special moment. I love the small places like this. Familiar places. You will never find this wine in the shop. But you can find it on the wine card of some restaurants. And particularly this white wine. You can find it in the famous restaurant Chevre d'Or in the Ais village. Every time you visit Provence, you discover something new. My bottle. My precious. How many bottles does it have? Six. In the carton. So we took six bottles of white wine and a small bottle of red wine. So if you are visiting Provence, you can take a Provence wine road, download even the application with a wine map and taste the local wine with an expert. Or if you don't drive a car, you can participate to a wine tour. Let's go. We gonna continue our road and next would be Lavender Fields. You can't visit the region without exploring Plateau L'Anseul. So we gonna say bye bye, au revoir to this beautiful wine yard. There are so many there are about 400 or even 500 wine yards in Provence. So let's continue the road of Provence. As I said, if you plan to travel to Provence, you can't miss the majestic Lavender Fields that decorate the region. The village Moustier-Saint-Marie is also part of the Lavender Route. So you won't be alone. There would be other tourists who's taking their pictures and enjoying the beautiful view. Same as you. I wouldn't say when is the best time to visit the Lavender Fields cause every year is different. I will say that we are now in first weekend of July and the fields are beautiful beautiful purple. This is amazing how different landscapes is in Provence. Now we are going to the Gorges du Verdon. This is one of the most breathtaking nature spot in the whole Provence and it's not that far from Plateau Valençol from Lavender Fields. So you can make it in one day both of these places. We are looking where to park and here is the bridge where we go next. We found the parking place very easily and now we are on the bridge from where you will see the most beautiful view of the Gorges du Verdon with it's turquoise water. Look at this. Over thousands of years the epic canyon was formed naturally creating a beautiful turquoise river with the limestone cliffs above. It's so beautiful. You can rent a kayak or paddle boards or canoe from a few locations around the Gorges and you are allowed to go a couple miles up the Gorges and then there you will see a marking that you cannot go further but it's very enough to enjoy this natural beautiful place with even waterfalls because we rented it last time when we were with Matt and I remember that there were waterfalls and grottes. You will meet here the visitors from all over the world. This is the perfect region for those who love to ride a bike or a motor or camping cars and now you see why this region due to it's natural charm attract a lot of visitors. It's quite hot today and now we are close to the water and we feel that we need to take some swim before we take a road back home. We found a beautiful place with lots of shadow and again the landscape is very different and it's amazing how in a very small region you can find all these beautiful and different views just in one day of driving the beautiful roads of Provence.