Château Saint-Louis la Perdrix can host weddings, seminars, baptisms, cocktails and long dinners for up to 250 guests, and sleep a wedding party or a team in 16 bedrooms on site. The estate is a working vineyard in the Costières de Nîmes, on the D3 road at Bellegarde, in the Gard.
Seminars and company events
The estate rents its reception hall for professional events. The hall covers 300 square meters and can take a plenary meeting, a product presentation or a company dinner. Between sessions, groups can move out to the 7,000-square-meter wooded park or to the covered sheepfold. The owners also organize their own concerts and tastings, and a team can include a visit of the vineyard or a tasting of the estate's wines and olive oil. A residential seminar can use the three houses on site for the night.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are central to the estate's calendar. The park suits secular ceremonies and cocktails. La Bergerie, a covered and open-sided space of 150 square meters, serves for cocktails or ceremonies, or as shelter if it rains. Garden furniture, wooden tables and benches, and standing tables are provided there; square wooden chairs for a ceremony can be added as an option. Dinner and dancing take place in the stone hall. The main house includes a bridal suite with a bathtub, double basins and a balcony over the park.
Rooms and capacities
The reception hall is built in Beaulieu stone, with exposed wooden beams 3.30 meters high, and is listed for up to 250 guests. Round tables of 1.80 meters and Napoleon chairs are included. A caterer's pantry with refrigeration adjoins the hall. La Bergerie adds 150 square meters of covered space, and the park gives more than 7,000 square meters of lawn under old plane trees.
Accommodation
The 16 bedrooms are spread across three gîte-style houses. The main house, about 250 square meters, has a living room with open kitchen and fireplace, the bridal suite and seven bedrooms, three of them with their own shower room. A second house of 100 square meters has two double rooms and a family room, plus extra beds in a sofa bed, a bench and a bunk cabin. A separate villa of 150 square meters, in a garden of more than 3,500 square meters, has four double rooms, a family room, a kitchen and a living room with fireplace.
Catering
There is no in-house caterer. Clients choose their own caterer and other suppliers freely. The estate's own wines and olive oil can be served at the event.
History and setting
The Castan family opened Saint-Louis la Perdrix in 2015 as their second estate, after Château Saint-Jean d'Aumières in the Terrasses du Larzac. Vianney and Emilie Castan run the wine business they started in 2007. They describe Saint-Louis as their place for celebrations, open to friends, families and companies. The house is a traditional winegrower's home in the south of France, surrounded by vines and clearings.
Getting there
The estate stands at Mas Saint Louis, on the D3 departmental road at Bellegarde. Nîmes is the nearest large town, and Arles and the Camargue are close by.
