One of Provence’s true glories

Owned by the family of Irish developer Paddy McKillen sr, Château La Coste is at the heart of a celebrated provençal art, architecture and wine renaissance

Château La Coste: its wines have been transformative

The Côte D’Azur, France’s most glamorous slice of Mediterranean coastline running from Marseille to Monte Carlo, has been an alluring sunlit paradise of deep blue skies, lavender covered hillsides, warm and dusty Cyprus tree-lined roads and endless vineyards for around 3,000 years now.

The Romans annexed the entire region calling it Our Province, later just Provence. Over the next two millennia, almost every regional power, from the Holy Roman Emperors to the Kingdom ...