Saint-Tropez & Gulf Rosé Wine Tours
The Gulf of Saint-Tropez is the heartland of Côtes de Provence rosé, the pale dry wine that fills summer tables everywhere, made at estates set among the vines and umbrella pines behind the glamour of the port. Compare the top-rated wine tours below, then read our notes.
Rosé wine tours around Saint-Tropez
Côtes de Provence rosé across the Gulf
Formats: small-group rosé tours of the Gulf estates; wine tastings by vintage car, e-bike or on horseback through the Maures; private luxury wine days; tastings at the domains around Ramatuelle, Gassin, Grimaud and Cogolin.
What you taste: Côtes de Provence rosé, dry and pale, from the peninsula’s estates, with some reds and whites, and the local olive oil and tapenade alongside.
Price: 92 to 150 dollars for a small-group half day; private and vintage-car days run much higher.
The rosé capital
Provence makes most of the world’s serious rosé, and the Gulf of Saint-Tropez is its most famous corner: a peninsula of vineyards running down to the sea, where estates like Château Minuty, Château Léoube and the Domaines Ott set the style for the pale, dry, mineral pink wine the region is known for. The big names sell mostly direct, but guided tours across the peninsula visit a spread of estates around Ramatuelle, Gassin, Grimaud and Cogolin, tasting rosé at each with the vines and the sea in view.
How to taste it
The tours are as much about the setting as the wine: small-group half days by minibus, tastings reached by vintage car or by e-bike along the vineyard tracks, even a ride through the Maures forest on horseback with a tasting at the end. Private luxury days combine the Gulf with the wider Provence estates. The wine is dry and pale, meant to be drunk cold and young; there is no sweet Provence rosé worth the name.
Saint-Tropez itself
Between vineyards, the town has the Place des Lices market on Tuesdays and Saturdays and the tarte tropézienne, the cream-filled brioche invented here in 1955 by the baker Alexandre Micka and named, so the story goes, by Brigitte Bardot on a film set. Saint-Tropez has no train; it is reached by road or by boat from the coast. For the coastal wines to the west, see our Bandol and Cassis wine tours, and for the rest of the Riviera the French Riviera hub.
Frequently asked questions
Is Provence rosé sweet?
No; the good Provence rosé, including from the Saint-Tropez estates, is bone dry, pale and mineral. Sweet pink wine is a different thing made elsewhere.
Can I visit Château Minuty or Domaines Ott?
The famous estates mostly sell direct and by appointment; guided Gulf tours visit a range of other domains across the peninsula, which is the easy way in.
How do I get to Saint-Tropez?
By road, about ninety minutes from Nice, or by boat along the coast; there is no train to the town.
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