Château Capion hosts seminars, study days, board and steering committee meetings, product launches, incentives, weddings and private receptions, using its salons, inner courtyard, French formal garden and pool area. Wine tours and tastings can be added to any program. The château stands on Chemin de Capion in Aniane, in the Hérault, at the heart of the Terrasses du Larzac appellation, 30 minutes from Montpellier.
Seminars and company events
The château takes companies for seminars, study days, leadership meetings, steering committees, product launches and incentive events, from a confidential meeting to a larger tailored event. Indoor and outdoor spaces are matched to the format. Groups can add a tour of the estate and a wine tasting, run in line with French rules on alcohol promotion, and the team can bring in partners for other services. The estate is also open to photo shoots, music videos, advertising films and fashion shows, and served as a filming location for the M6 series Nouveau Jour in 2025.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, birthdays, christenings, family parties and vow renewals take place between the château, the gardens, the inner courtyard and the vineyard views. The team helps choose the spaces and can refer couples to partners for catering, photography, flowers, music and decoration. Each event is quoted on its own basis, according to the number of guests and the services chosen.
Rooms and capacities
The spaces named on the site are the château's period salons, the inner courtyard, the French formal garden with fountains and a pool, the park with notable trees, and the pool area. The site does not publish capacities or surfaces for any of them. Ask the events team for the figures that match your format before you plan a layout. The estate states that its spaces are accessible to guests with reduced mobility.
Catering
The château does not describe an in-house caterer for events. It refers clients to partner caterers. In season, it runs Les Éphémères de Capion, dinners where a guest chef cooks a tasting menu paired with the estate's wines, which shows the kind of food and wine pairing the venue can host.
History and setting
Old manuscripts place the first building in the 16th century. A north wing was added in the 19th century, when the house took its present form as a wine "folly," with a horseshoe staircase. An inventory from 1828 lists a reception room, a dining room, bedrooms, vaulted cellars and stables. In the 20th century, the estate passed to the Wormser family, wine merchants deported to Auschwitz in 1944, then to the Salasc family in the 1960s. The Bührer family laid out the French garden, fountains and dovecote after 1996. Oleg Chirkunov took over in 2016 and began the conversion to organic farming. Since 2023, the château has belonged to Francis Ingrand and Sandrine Tannière, who aim to develop events alongside wine production.
The estate covers 96 hectares of woods, gardens, vines and parkland, farmed organically since 2020. Its wines are sold under four labels: Château Capion, Chemin des Garennes, Songe d'Éocène and Domaine de Capion. The tasting cellar is open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Getting there
Aniane is about 30 minutes by road from Montpellier, in the Hérault valley near the Larzac plateau. Montpellier is the natural arrival point for groups traveling by train or air, with a transfer to the estate by coach or car.
