The Domaine La Gayolle can host a seminar, a training day or a strategy meeting for up to 100 people, and a wedding dinner for up to 120 seated guests. Events take place in a new 180 m² hall among the vines, which opens through large glass walls onto a shaded esplanade. The estate covers 72 hectares at the foot of the Massif de la Loube, at La Celle in the Var, in the green heart of Provence.
Seminars and company events
The seminar hall measures 180 m² and seats up to 100 people. It has a video projector, a screen, high-speed Wi-Fi, a microphone and a flip chart, and it can be set for a meeting, a conference, a workshop or a training session. Packages are built with or without meals and with or without activities.
The day can include a welcome coffee, breaks, lunch under the plane trees or in the hall, a tasting of the estate's wines and a guided visit of the vineyard or the chapel. Team-building activities can also be booked on their own: a guided visit with tasting, a food and wine pairing workshop led by a sommelier, a bike or walking tour of the estate, and a treasure hunt ending with a tasting.
Weddings and receptions
For a wedding, the hall seats up to 120 guests and opens onto the esplanade for the cocktail, the dinner or a brunch the next day. The grounds include landscaped gardens, the listed Romanesque chapel, a truffle orchard, an old fountain and centuries-old plane trees. Couples choose their own suppliers, pay no corkage on the estate's wines, can stay on site and can extend to Sunday for a brunch. Weddings have a separate contact from seminars.
Rooms and capacities
The hall measures 180 m² and seats 100 at a seminar, or 120 for a wedding meal; the estate's general events page gives 90 seated for meetings. The esplanade and gardens provide outdoor space. Guided tastings take place in a semi-underground cellar dating from the twelfth century.
Accommodation
The estate offers lodging on site for wedding parties. The number of bedrooms and beds is not published, so check what is available for your group.
Catering
The estate works with outside suppliers, and couples are free to choose their own caterer. For seminars, the estate builds packages with breaks and lunch; ask who supplies the meals. The estate's own wines can be served without corkage.
History and setting
The Paul family bought the estate in 1855. Nicolas Paul, the seventh generation, took over in 2010; the vineyard carries the HVE environmental label and is moving toward agroforestry. The estate holds the Chapel of Notre-Dame de La Gayolle, listed as a historic monument. Built at the end of the fifth century and later destroyed, it was rebuilt in 1058 by the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille. A second-century sarcophagus found in its foundations, reused for a Roman noblewoman named Syagria, is now kept at the Musée des Comtes de Provence in Brignoles. The plane trees are listed among the Remarkable Trees of France.
Getting there
The estate is on the Route de la Roquebrussanne, RD 205, 83170 La Celle, next to Brignoles. A car or a coach is the practical option.
