Luberon, France

Mas des Infermières

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR490.12), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Film cru

Setting

Winsome Provençal winery

Rolling Luberon vineyards are the opening shot at Mas des Infermières — a Provençal winery stay from Ridley Scott and family. Here on his rural French estate, the filmmaker has forayed into period romance, reimagining three historic farmhouses with heart-pattering modernist interiors. As a montage of wine tastings, cedar-scented hikes and dinners in hilltop villages cuts to a moonlit dip in your private pool, we’ll tactfully fade to black…

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Welcome basket including a bottle of the estate’s sparkling rosé wine

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Three villas.

Check–Out

10am. Check-in is at 4pm, but both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Mas des Infermières include a tour of the winery.

Also

Unfortunately, Mas des Infermières is not suitable for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Winery, shop, bikes to borrow and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, Bose Sounddock speaker, air-conditioning, kitchen, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, washing machine, tumble dryer, hairdryer and bathrobes.

Our favourite rooms

Each of the three farmhouses has a private pool, pretty gardens and hand-chosen art pieces, so there’s no short straw here. The five-bedroom Mas des Chênes Verts sleeps nine and is perfectly pitched for larger family gatherings.

Poolside

Each villa has a private pool, heated in the summer, with sunloungers and parasols.

Packing tips

Ditch the sword, double up on the sandals, and leave a few kilos spare for stashing the estate’s sublime wine, olive oil and honey.

Also

If updating your Letterboxd over a full-bodied syrah sounds like heaven, we hope you’re sitting down — there’s an exhibition of memorabilia from Scott’s films in the domaine’s wine cellar.

Children

Any little Smiths in tow will need to be aged 12 or older.

Sustainability efforts

Mas des Infermières makes protecting its environment a priority. Growing methods bolster the area’s biodiversity, and the estate uses a high-tech geographical information system to reduce the use of any products that could disrupt the ecosystem. This is a pollinator-kind place, too, with insecticides banned and wildflowers regularly sown. All the farmhouses use solar power to heat water, and both Villa Gris and Villa Marcou use geothermal energy to power the underfloor heating and cooling systems.

Food and Drink

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Hotel restaurant

There’s no restaurant, but you can get your cordon bleu on in your villa’s private kitchen — perhaps with fresh produce from the estate’s potager.

Hotel bar

There’s no bar as such, but in the tasting cellar you can try a selection of the domaine’s 10 wines. First on our wishlist is the limited cuvée Ombre de Lune, a barrel-aged bottle from the estate’s oldest syrah vines, harvested for peak freshness in the shadow of the moon — bien sûr. Opt for a tour, and you’ll get the lowdown on the Luberon appellation and the estate’s winemaking process. And if you’ve ever wanted to sip wine while eyeing a space suit once worn by Matt Damon, do we have good news for you…

Last orders

Between October and May, the tasting cellar is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 6pm; between June and September it’s open daily from 10am to 7pm.

Location

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Address
Mas des Infermières
1575 Route du Four Neuf
Oppède
84580
France

You’ll find Mas des Infermières just outside the mediaeval village of Oppède-le-Vieux, at the foot of the Luberon’s lavender-perfumed hills.

Planes

Marseille Provence Airport is an hour’s drive away.

Trains

High-speed services from Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Cannes, Nice and more, as well as from international cities including Brussels, Geneva, Frankfurt, Madrid and Barcelona, cruise in to Avignon TGV station. From Avignon, it’s a 50-minute drive to Mas des Infermières.

Automobiles

Each villa has its own private parking: there’s space for up to four cars if you're staying at Mas des Chênes Verts or Villa Gris, and room for two cars at Villa Marcou.

Other

Helicopter landing can be arranged on request.

Worth getting out of bed for

A tour and tasting at the winery should top the to-do lists of oenophiles and cinephiles alike; swirl, sniff and spot cinematic treasures, then swing by the domaine’s boutique to stock up on local crafts, house-pressed olive oil and honey from the estate’s (extremely happy) bees. In summer, there’s a line-up of open-air film screenings, concerts and other cultural treats, too.

Hiking and cycling routes fan out through the Luberon Natural Regional Park’s undulating landscape, linking up the mediaeval villages that crown the hilltops. Oppède-le-Vieux is the closest commune — as you wander its storied alleyways, see if you can spy the Carré de Sator — a palindromic Roman engraving that inspired Scott’s design for the domaine’s logo. Others to explore include Lacoste, home to the saucy Marquis de Sade’s castle, Ménerbes and Bonnieux. If you need a starting point, gen up on local-favourite markets and indie shops with your villa’s guide book.

Local restaurants

The inventive seasonal menus at Le Vivier, a fine-dining stalwart in L’Isle sur la Sorgue, are alluring — but we’d go anyway just for a spot on the leafy waterfront terrace. For a more laidback lunch, Solelh is a modern bistro from the same team, where regional produce and classic Occitan flavours are spun into cool, contemporary plates.

Closer to home in Oppède-le-Vieux, the Petit Café des Jeanne doubles down on the village’s fairytale mediaeval atmosphere, serving homely Mediterranean fare out on the twinkly-lit terrace.

Local bars

Le 17 Place aux Vins in nearby Coustellet delivers everything you want from a local wine bar — an extensive cellar, knowledgeable staff and dangerously moreish nibbles.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this winery stay in the Luberon and unpacked their favourite vintages and flea-market finds, a full account of their Provençal break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Mas des Infermières in France…

To anyone familiar with filmmaker Ridley Scott’s oeuvre, that he was drawn to Mas des Infermières is no mystery. The lush Luberon landscape is enough to lure anyone, the excellent terroir likewise. For a master of atmosphere, though, it’s an irresistible scene — Provençal sunlight playing across sweeping vineyards, only rustling oaks and a honeybee hum to disrupt a centuries-old peace.

Add in the fact that the estate was once home to a Napoleonic general, and someone with an antenna for historical adaptation could hardly resist. Three converted farmhouses pair limewash-and-linen rusticity with curated modern art and sculptural mid-century furniture. And there’s a flirtation with sci-fi at the winery, where cutting-edge techniques produce celebrated cuvées (and protect the ecosystem in the process). Sure, the action’s lower-octane than you might expect from a Scott project, but that just means you can do all your own stunts. On the slate to start with: a cycle, a siesta, and a feature-length stint in your private pool.

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