Visit to the oil mills
Le Moulin d'Opio
For 7 generations, the Moulin d’Opio has belonged to the Michel family. The wheel of the traditional mill powered by water from the Brague turns quietly as time passes, until the day when Mr. Roger Michel inherits this business. He decides to shake up habits by installing a more productive traditional mill
When Roger Michel’s daughter, Christine, took over this family business, she in turn decided to enlarge the mill with modern facilities.
Nowadays, olives from small producers and individuals are pressed at the mill. Even from a very small quantity of olives, everyone can come to the mill and leave with oil.
You need a certain quantity of olive to have your “own” oil, otherwise the olive bringer leaves with a quota of weight of oil.
You will notice the installation of the shop in the old mill dating from the 15th century where you can admire the old cut stone presses as well as the old millstones once driven by wooden gears which have remained intact since their last use ago. 2 centuries.
In this shop you will enjoy a beautiful selection of oils, tapenades, olives, local products…
THIS MILL IS A PARNER OF LOCATIONS-06. AS SUCH, TENANTS OF LOCATIONS-06 WILL RECEIVE A PRIVILEGED WELCOME.
This mill is located in Opio, 5 minutes from our Cottages of Bar sur Loup.
The Moulin Baussy, in Spéracedes
The modern mill has just turned a hundred years old and is located in Spéracèdes. Yet it is at the forefront of progress: no more millstones, no more coconut scourtins stacked to filter the oil, no more presses but a series of steel mixers which allow rapid production by centrifugation, in compliance with European standards.
The mill operates from November to March. Half of the processed fruits come from the Alpes-Maritimes, which has rich soils and trees several hundred years old. But this department is too built and too steep to allow for an increase in the surface area of plantations. The other half comes from the Var just next door, where the land would be better suited to vines but where large flat spaces make it possible to envisage new olive groves. Everywhere, owners are modernizing, ensuring better maintenance of olive trees, installing drip irrigation.
Visiting the mill is possible during the manufacturing period: from mid-November to mid-February as well as during the Moulins Open Day.
Many products are sold there: oils, olives, soaps but this family does not produce olives. There is a large choice of oils either from the region or from the European Union but always of good quality.
It is located 30 minutes from our cottages
The Moulin Saint Anne, in Grasse
Located outside the town of Grasse towards the Var, it is a pretty mill which is 300 years old. Several owners have succeeded one another. This mill now belongs to the “A L’OLIVIER” group and markets its products and those of the group via its store and its website.
This mill is located 25 minutes from our lodges
