Château le Bouïs hosts study days, residential seminars, team building, weddings and family celebrations, with four seminar rooms for up to 210 people and a panoramic restaurant that holds 200 at a cocktail. The estate is on the Route Bleue in Gruissan, in the Aude, at the foot of the Massif de la Clape, about 15 minutes from Narbonne.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells study days, semi-residential and residential seminars all year round. Its four meeting rooms are equipped with a video projector, a screen, Wi-Fi, a flipchart and air conditioning, and a large car park is on site. The largest room, La Plénière, seats 100 in theater style.
Wine is the main team activity: guided visits of the vines and the vaulted historic cellars, tasting workshops, blending sessions where each participant makes and labels a personal cuvée, and walking trails through the vineyard. Other options listed are e-scooter rides in the vines, hikes in La Clape or the Corbières, and a guided visit of Narbonne.
Weddings and receptions
Secular ceremonies are held in the Parc Méditerranéen, under pines about 300 years old. Drinks and dinners use the panoramic terraces facing the sea and the vines. Three wedding packages exist. Tradition du Bouïs privatizes the air-conditioned panoramic restaurant for 100 seated or 150 at a cocktail. Les Embruns du Bouïs adds the large covered terrace for 130 seated or 200 at a cocktail. Les Douceurs du Bouïs focuses on the park. The packages include 24-hour hire of the site, furniture, Wi-Fi, a video projector, a rest room and all rooms and suites with breakfast.
Rooms and capacities
La Plénière: 150 square meters, 100 theater, 110 banquet, 70 U-shape, 70 in islands. Salle Méditerranées: 90 square meters, 60 theater, 50 banquet, 50 in islands, 30 classroom, 30 U-shape. Salle aux Amphores: 70 square meters, 60 banquet, 50 theater, 30 in islands, 20 U-shape. Salle Garrigue: 50 square meters, 60 cocktail, 50 theater, 20 U-shape. The restaurant, its covered terrace and the park complete the spaces.
Accommodation
The wedding packages list 21 rooms and suites with 39 beds. They are spread across La Maison des Demoiselles, an 18th-century master's house in the pine park with three rooms and two suites, La Maison du Vendangeur, the former sharecropper's house with five rooms, three Côté Jardin rooms with private terraces, and Côté Vignes rooms, some with a sea-view balcony. Several rooms are accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Catering
The estate restaurant, Le Comptoir des Vignes, serves Mediterranean cooking based on local, seasonal produce, with a house specialty of cooking over vine cuttings. All wines on the list come from the estate. The panoramic room has a fireplace for winter, and three terraces are used in summer.
History and setting
Brothers Pierre-Jean and Dominique Bouïs, from Gruissan, bought the estate in 1771, and it took the title of château in the 19th century. The vineyard is certified organic and produces AOP La Clape, AOP Languedoc and IGP Pays d'Oc wines, with harvests largely by hand. The tasting cellar is one of the largest in the region.
Getting there
The estate is about 15 minutes from Narbonne, with motorway access nearby. The nearest station is Narbonne, and the nearest airport named by the estate is Montpellier.
