Dreaming of a vacation based on food and wine? Well, start here at La Dolce Vita where, in the south of France, we live to eat and love our grapes! Cooking and eating are the basis of life in the Minervois, sitting down to a meal for hours on end means preparing the meal with love, passion and flavour!

We offer cookery courses to fit your needs and fulfill your desired menus. While staying in Azille in a comfortable room, you can plan a long weekend with a few friends, a weeklong cooking vacation sprinkled with intermittent wine tasting, or enjoy a break from the tourist day and prepare your own lunch or dinner at La Dolce Vita. Learn to please not only your own belly, but those of your friends and family as well.

Sample 2-day Cooking Course

An evening welcome with aperitif to discuss the menus & course itinerary for following day. Dinner is a simple family style meal with local wines, to talk about food.

Cooking Day: After breakfast we begin prep & cooking the lunch meal. Take a short break to go wine-tasting, nap or walk through the vineyards. Late afternoon we begin dinner, learning yet more techniques & hands on prep. Enjoy the evening meal together.

Final morning: Hand out menu/recipes booklet over final breakfast, schedule your next course!

Sample ½-day Cooking Course

10h00: The morning will be spent learning new techniques, preparing & cooking your gourmet lunch...as well as discovering hints & ideas for personalizing your own meals. Join us and get your hands in the mix to create your own gourmet lunch.

13h30: Eat, while enjoying local wine:

Chilled Tomato Sips
Duck Parmentier
Chocolate Volcanoes
 

Wine & Food in Balance

A new concept in wine-tasting and enjoying your food. Come and learn with us, at La Dolce Vita, what your palette says to you.

No more rules to follow about which wines you are supposed to like or drink with fish or beef, but instead learn what please your tastes. An array of wines & sample tastes will be presented to you and with instruction; you will find your way to choose what you like with your meal.

Included in the evening will be finger foods to round off your evening, along with finishing touches both in wines and sweets.

Please feel free to ask for your own personalized menus & tastings, or we can suggest several for you to choose from. Please inquire for details, pricing and your own personalized cooking day.

PLEASE NOTE: minimum of 2 participants per course, non-participants are welcome to stay, eat or drink, pricing adjusted – please inquire.