Expérience
Rencontres privilégiées au Pays du Roquefort

Step 1- In beekeeper’s shoes

In Pays du Roquefort, we have ewes but also bees! Follow Nadia and Bruno for a real immersion inside bees’ world, a privileged discovery, during which one of you wears the outfit!

After a learning time about basis gestures with the beekeeper Bruno, one of you wears the outfit. The beekeeper guides you to the meeting with bee colony, very gentle.

In the middle of our kindly bees’ drone, open the hive, make several manipulations, and discover an intense life… It is magical: the queen, the brood, the workers are busy, harvests in progress are shining, revealing their perfume. Your loved ones, protected behind a patio door, won’t miss a thing, with live sound and images!

After this personal meeting with our bees, what could be better than a tasting? During an introduction to organoleptic analysis of flavours, you will have at least 10 honeys to taste. Will you know how to identify wooded, floral, and wild hints in our honeys?

A memorable experience, guaranteed to awaken the senses within a world as fascinating as gourmet!

Step 2 – Gourmet break

Have lunch at Le Pont Neuf restaurant where Jérome’s cooking gives prominence to homemade by highlighting quality products from our “aveyronnais” local. Like this you will be tempted by Roquefort-based dishes, Aveyronnais veal, Aubrac beef, lamb sweetbreads and aligot. Unmissable moment, end the meal with a trilogy of Roquefort!

Step 3 – In “cabanière”’s shoes

Let yourself be carried along the taste and the smell of the King of Cheese to reach the village of Roquefort and its cellars. Discover the legend and the ancestral cheese-making savoir-faire of Gabriel Coulet, family company created in 1872, that collects medals at agricultural competitions.

You will start the visit with a 20-minutes movie that recounting the family’s story which is proud to perpetuate the heritage of 5 generations of cheese-making expertise.

Take the stairs, towards the reconstituted salting room and learn about the “cabanières”’s valuable handiwork that carefully packed this white and blue gold that is Roquefort. As you will see, it is not that easy!

All this will make your mouth water. The final tasting of Roquefort and ewe’s tome with a glass of wine will certainly satisfy gourmand’s taste buds!