Top France Factory Tours

Come away from this workshop with a brand new skill as you learn about the intricate process of brush and broom-making. Discover how master crafters select their materials as your tutor teaches about the trade’s specialized tools. After the session, explore a workshop filled with dozens of painstakingly crafted wooden vehicles.

Alsace is one of France’s most renowned regions for wines, but with so many unfamiliar names, it can be hard to know where to start when ordering wine at dinner. Get a crash course during this wine cellar visit and tasting, letting you go behind the scenes at a working winery. Continue with a decadent brunch—complete with pastries, cold cuts, granola, and more.

Here is the English translation of your text, keeping the same structure and professional tone: A Visit to the "Distillerie des 4 Vallées" At the foot of the Vercors mountains, enjoy a sensory immersion in the heart of a family farm active since 1930. Here, we don’t just look at lavender: we understand it. On the program (1h): - History & Heritage: Why lavender became a pillar of well-being and perfumery. - Botany: Learn to differentiate between fine lavender, spike lavender, and lavandin (cultivation, scents, and yields). - From Flower to Bottle: Distillation explained simply, from ancestral methods to modern processes. - Olfactory Workshop: An interactive comparison to identify aromatic profiles based on your needs. - Expert Advice: Practical and responsible ways to use essential oils and floral waters in your daily life. Extend the experience: Freely explore our "Heritage" space and its vintage stills, stroll near the fields, and then visit our farm shop (over 300 artisanal French products).

We don't talk about distillation here, you live it. The “old-fashioned distilling” workshop is an immersive experience to understand the gestures of the trade: you collect, observe, smell and leave with your bottle. For 2 hours, you start with a clear context: what an agricultural distillery is, what you distill, and how a still transforms a plant into an essential oil. Then head to the fields: sickle in hand, you cut the lavender, group it into bales and return to the distillery where the preheated still is ready to work. The rest takes place “at the heart of the machines”: observation of the steam/condensation cycle and visit of the restored stills. The workshop concludes with a sensory sequence: olfactory to differentiate lavender and lavender, tasting of craft syrup with Vercors water and delivery of your souvenir bottle.