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Provence is where golden light meets lavender fields, vineyards, and tables overflowing with flavor.

Sun-drenched hills roll into patchwork vineyards, where rosé flows as easily as conversation.

Lavender perfumes the air, markets brim with color, and rustic tables invite long, lingering meals. In Provence, food, art, and landscape weave seamlessly into daily life—it’s not just a destination, it’s a way of being.

Here, the pace slows. Stone villages glow at sunset, olive groves stretch toward the horizon, and the Mediterranean breeze whispers through cypress-lined lanes. From the painter’s palette to the vintner’s glass, Provence glows with a timeless beauty that has inspired artists, chefs, and dreamers for centuries.

But it’s at the table where Provence truly comes alive.

Markets spill over with fragrant herbs, sun-ripened produce, wheels of goat cheese, and baskets of fresh bread. Meals are a celebration—whether it’s a glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape sipped in the shade of a vineyard, or a simple dish of ratatouille perfected over generations. Each bite is a reminder that nourishment here means more than food: it means connection, joy, and savoring the moment.

Provence isn’t just a place to visit—it’s an invitation. To linger, to taste, to wander, and to embrace the art of living well.

Tour Highlights

• Cooking classes, tastings and wine visits

• Exclusive home-away-from-home accommodations 

• Hyper-local guides and experiences 

• Private ground transfers 

• Oohing and aahing (while learning!) over the beauty of the flavors, sceneries and culture of the countryside of France

Accommodations

Nestled in the heart of Mouries, a small picturesque village in the Alpilles, the mas Respelido embodies authentic Provence. This peaceful place is the new landmark created by architects Liliana and Alain Meylan, who collect the most beautiful residences steeped in history within Les Domaines de Chabran. Committed to regenerative tourism, Respelido reflects their passion for the respectful restoration of old buildings. The mas Respelido brings together several buildings. The two main ones, the mas and the summer house, evoke the charm of the past with all the comfort attributes of a modern luxury residence. The 19 m swimming pool is nestled in a veritable green setting, where old rose bushes and fragrant jasmine blend harmoniously. 

Itinerary

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Get To Know Annemarie from Salt Water Farm...

Raised in Milwaukee, Annemarie spent her childhood summers in Maine at her family’s blueberry farm on Blinn Hill in the town of Dresden, where she and her cousins spent days picking blueberries and building forts in the woods.After attending Colorado College, her interest in food developed while living in Aix-en-Provence, where she studied Provincial cuisine and visited the open-air markets.  She also worked in Paris at a little bistro beside Notre Dame, where she would filet flounder table-side for the priests’ afternoon lunch.

After attending the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, Annemarie cooked in the kitchen at Blue Hill and then went on to work as a personal assistant to Tom Colicchio, owner of Craft restaurant.  She volunteered at Union Square Farmers Market with her sister, teaching people how to use kohlrabi, among other ingredients.  She spent some time in Barcelona, helping to teach cooking classes at “Cook and Taste,” a little cooking school across from La Boqueria, her favorite food market.

In 2009, Annemarie moved to Maine to build a recreational cooking school, with the help of her family.  Salt Water Farm is the culmination of her experience in the food industry, her culinary travels, and a deep appreciation for traditional methods of cooking locally sourced ingredients.  Through the school, Annemarie shares the pleasures that come from sowing, growing, preserving, foraging, brewing, stewing as well as eating locally raised and farmed dishes.

Salt Water Farm Cooking School opened its doors in the summer of 2009, on an old sheep farm on the Maine coast.  Annemarie Ahearn, the founder and cooking class instructor, shared with her students fundamental cooking and gardening skills in her family’s antique post and beam barn, overlooking the Penobscot Bay.  In the fall of 2009, she began hosting a Full Moon Supper series, which she continues to host on every full moon between June and October.  The supper club became so popular, that In May of 2013, Annemarie opened Salt Water Farm Cafe & Market in beautiful Rockport Harbor, expanding her audience.  Salt Water Farm’s continues to serve local, seasonal fare to guests at both the school and the restaurant.