EDDINGTON’S ADVENTURE CULINARY TOURS

Enjoy…
Your stay in a magnificent 12th century castle! Home will be a beautifully renovated chateau in a tiny village surrounded by vineyards. Five private acres, a swimming pool, a garden and a vineyard will be yours to enjoy, and beautiful walks will take you out into the countryside in every direction.

Inside there is plenty of space for 14 guests to find privacy or spend time together.  The house has been in the same family since 1730 – parts of it date back to the 12th century when it was a Cathar stronghold – so family furniture and portraits fill every room, making it a real home away from home.  Your shared accommodation will be in handsomely decorated, antique-filled bedrooms with en suite baths and king or twin beds.

Enhance…
Your culinary skills and knowledge of local food and wine at daily cooking classes. Menus will be created with James as ingredients are selected at local markets, artisanal shops and wineries. Cheeses, breads, seafood, sausage, honey, olives, produce of amazing size and quality – a morning at the market is entertaining and educational!

Lunches will be in restaurants typical of the region, from local favourites to Michelin-starred, from simple home style cooking to works of culinary art. We’ll taste our way through olive mills, wineries and dairies; we’ll make our own culinary discoveries and bring them home to share.

Explore…
The countryside, the vineyards and ancient villages.
An early morning walk into the hills is a lovely way to begin the day and never to be forgotten. Bring your camera to capture vines bursting with fruit and the sun rising on tiny medieval villages that dot the patchwork of olive groves, orchards and vineyards. You’ll experience a way of life that hasn’t changed very much in thousands of years.

And each day will take us to an historic site or ancient village…
• Carcassonne, the largest walled city in Europe;
• Minerve, one of ‘The Most Beautiful Villages in France’;
• Narbonne, once the Roman capital of Gaul;
• The Canal du Midi, in the 17th century considered to be the greatest human feat of engineering in the world

Experience…
A way of life little changed in hundreds of years. The loveliest part of France is waiting to be discovered, and Chef James Eddington invites you to visit it with him in 2027. The Minervois wine region is in the sunny south, nestled between the Pyrenees mountains and the Mediterranean Sea – the country’s oldest wine-producing region, beautiful, charming, rich in history and culture, the garden of France. Wine aficionados will already be familiar with the exceptional vintages to be found here, there’s no better place to explore and enjoy French cuisine, and no better guide than Chef James Eddington.