The Lices Farm

An original idea, a quality signature.

The terroir

La Ferme des Lices occupies a dream location on the Saint-Tropez peninsula, on the southeastern coast of the Var region, in the Salins plain. Saint-Tropez benefits from this exceptional location, blessed with excellent sunshine and a typically Mediterranean climate. The Mistral wind, whose intensity is tempered by the Maures mountain range, provides unparalleled protection against the chill of the highlands.
On a granite base, the schistose and sandy soils encourage deep rooting of the vines.

The story

In the 6th century BC, the Phocaeans founded Anthenopolis, the site now occupied by the commune of Saint-Tropez. In 1793, it was given the name Heraclea, and finally Saint-Tropez in 1801, in homage to Torpes, an officer of Emperor Nero.
Vines were planted in the commune by the Phocaeans. The wine and olive oil trade prospered thanks to maritime commerce.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers, including Guy de Maupassant, Joseph Kessel, Jean Cocteau, and Marcel Pagnol, discovered Saint-Tropez and promoted it extensively. Saint-Tropez became a tourist destination, and second homes began to flourish.

Creation of the domain

The story of Ferme des Lices is straight out of a fairy tale. About fifty years ago, a beautiful vineyard that once belonged to Monsieur Angelvin, near the beach of St-Tropez, found itself at the heart of a real estate project divided into eight lots, and the vines were thus destined to disappear. This was without taking into account Laurence Berlemont's original idea.
Saint-Tropez, which has always inspired painters (Matisse, Bonnard, Marquet, Dufy ...), writers (Colette, Signac ...), has also inspired Laurence Berlemont, for the pleasure of our taste buds.

In the late 1990s, an English woman who had purchased the first lot in this real estate complex placed her trust in Laurence Berlemont, then a young and virtually unknown oenologist, and rented her vineyard to her, and gradually it was the turn of the other owners. Thus, starting in 2002, Laurence Berlemont had grouped six vineyards and two olive groves belonging to holidaymakers eager to revive the vineyard. These owners were won over by the originality of the concept.
Laurence Berlemont joined forces with Patrick Deveaux to carry out this project.
The vines were gradually restored, the garage of one of the owners was transformed into a winery... an estate was invented: La Ferme des Lices.

Who is Laurence Berlemont, behind this exceptional project?

An agricultural engineer, graduate of the National Institute of Agronomy in Paris Grignon, oenologist from the ENSA in Montpellier, taster for the International Olive Council since 2001, Agricultural Land Expert since 2008, Laurence Berlemont set up as a consultant in 1995, devoting herself to the Wine and Oenological Council and then to olive growing, a sector of activity that she knows perfectly through her family roots (she has been in charge of a small family olive grove since the age of 18).
Then some of his clients very quickly entrusted him with the management and development of their domains.

She started with just a few domains, and today, with her team of four consultants, she manages around sixty.