Airelles Château d'Estoublon: How to Book a Provence Wine Estate

Of all the Airelles Maisons, Château d'Estoublon may be the most unexpected. It is not a ski palace or a city landmark but a working wine and olive estate at the foot of the Alpilles, near Les Baux-de-Provence, where the domaine itself, its vineyards, its olive groves, its cellars, is the point of the stay rather than a backdrop to it. For a slower, more rooted kind of Provence, there is nothing quite like it.

Château d'Estoublon is a 17th-century château restored with the same restraint Airelles applies everywhere, its vineyards and olive groves stretching to the horizon in the Vallée des Baux. This is one of the celebrated wine and olive oil estates of Provence, and a stay here is woven around it: tastings of the estate's wines and oils, walks through the groves, and the rhythm of a real agricultural domaine. The setting places you within easy reach of Les Baux-de-Provence, Saint-Rémy, Arles and the lavender country beyond.

Rooms are set within the historic château and its grounds, decorated in the warm, layered Provençal style the collection is known for, with the estate's restaurant and boutique at the heart of the experience. It is the gentlest of the Airelles Maisons, best for a summer or early-autumn escape built around wine, food and the slow pleasures of the Alpilles, and it pairs beautifully with the collection's other Provence houses at Gordes and Villa Baulieu.

Our guide to booking Airelles and our guide to every Airelles hotel put Château d'Estoublon in the context of the wider collection.