Grand Tour

With Laroche
discover
France.

A journey through France delivered to your home: selected wines, French specialities and, for every stage, a booklet with the stories behind them.

First edition limited to 60 boxes · Pre-order later journeys · Redeem voucher

Lavender field in Provence, a woman with a glass of rose

In three steps

How it works

  1. Hand-painted Grand Tour band 01

    Choose a journey

    From the Loire Valley as an entry point through the France Trilogy or the France Panorama to the complete Grand Tour. Also available as a gift.

  2. Louis-Pierre Laroche in his shop in Markt Piesting, hands on a Grand Tour box 02

    Receive the parcel

    The parcel is put together personally by Louis-Pierre Laroche, wine merchant in Markt Piesting and on the road to winemakers for over 20 years. Depending on your choice you set off on a journey of up to twelve months.

  3. Wine, cheese and specialities laid out as a picnic 03

    Discover France at home

    Open the parcel, read the booklet, enjoy. The route continues automatically or can be extended, depending on your choice.

From the first stage to the complete work

Choose your journey

Three journeys, twelve stages. Individually or all three together as the complete Grand Tour.

Three regions · Three stages

France Trilogy

  • 3 months · 3 parcels
  • Burgundy, Rhone and Provence
  • 9 wines & 9 specialities
  • Booklet in every parcel
  • 25 EUR voucher for the French Heuriger
  • 400 €or 150 EUR a month over 3 months · 450 EUR in total50 EUR cheaper when paid in one go

Also as the France Quartet, together with Bienvenue au Paradis: 470 EUR or 130 EUR a month over four months, likewise 50 EUR cheaper when paid in one go.

Coming soon

Eight regions · Eight stages

France Panorama

  • 8 parcels · 8 stages
  • From the Languedoc to Alsace
  • 24 wines & 24 specialities
  • Booklet in every parcel
  • 75 EUR voucher for the French Heuriger
  • 1.080 €or 160 EUR a month over 8 months · 1,280 EUR in total200 EUR cheaper when paid in one go

Coming soon

The complete work

Complete Grand Tour

Living like God in France

Bienvenue au Paradis + France Trilogy + France Panorama

Order once, receive wines and delicacies for twelve months.

  • 12 parcels · 12 stages
  • From the Loire to Alsace
  • 36 wines & 36 specialities
  • 150 EUR voucher for the French Heuriger
  • 1.550 €or 150 EUR a month over 12 months · 1,800 EUR in total250 EUR cheaper when paid in one go

Coming soon

Pre-order without obligation · Limited first edition · Shipping and payment details follow with the confirmation

How the prices come about

The monthly payment spreads the total amount over the duration of the journey. Whoever pays in one go pays less: 50 EUR for the Trilogy and the Quartet, 200 EUR for the Panorama, 250 EUR for the complete Grand Tour. The voucher for the French Heuriger stays the same, whichever way you pay.

Ordering a journey as a package is also 9 EUR cheaper than booking its stages one after another. The corkscrew by Coutale is in the first parcel of every journey.

Étape 01 · Loire Valley

The box in pictures

Wooden crate of the first stage with Muscadet, Pouilly-Fume and Touraine
The three wines of the first stage: Muscadet, Pouilly-Fume and Touraine
The companion booklet of the first stage, standing in the crate
The booklet about the region, included in every parcel
Pate by Roger Vidal, Galettes Bretonnes and mustard from Orleans
The three specialities: pate, Galettes Bretonnes and Orleans mustard

Before every stage

How a stage comes about

Every parcel holds the knowledge and experience Louis-Pierre Laroche has gathered over more than 20 years. And there is more: we tasted every single wine and invited a wine academic to join us.

Alexander C. Schwarz holds a bottle of champagne and loosens the wire cage
Alexander C. Schwarz opens one of the bottles for the tasting

At the table in the store

Every wine discussed in detail

Alexander C. Schwarz is a wine academic. With him we worked our way through the stages wine by wine, opening and tasting one bottle after another.

What we experienced on those evenings is in the companion booklet that comes with every parcel.

Alexander C. Schwarz pours a sparkling wine at the wooden table in the store, Louis-Pierre Laroche sitting opposite
Every bottle is opened and poured for both
Alexander C. Schwarz writes in a notebook, opened bottles and glasses on the table
The notes from this evening become the texts in the companion booklet
The wooden table in the store after the tasting: opened bottles, glasses and written sheets
The table at the end of the evening

The idea

What is the Grand Tour?

Anyone who enjoys wine faces a wall of bottles online with little to go by. We did not want to solve that with a simple wine parcel, but with a journey through France that comes to your home.

Hand-painted Grand Tour band with bottle, glass and cork in bordeaux red
The hand-painted band on every box, drawn by JH Art

The choice of wines mattered to us. Louis-Pierre picked every single one with care. We tasted them together over two evenings in Markt Piesting, with wine academic Alexander C. Schwarz at the table. That is also where the texts came about that later went into the booklet.

What sets the Grand Tour apart from a wine parcel are the delicacies from the house of Laroche and the character of a journey: you set off on a route, stage by stage, from the Loire to Alsace.

That became the Grand Tour, in three travel packages. The first stage leads to the Loire and can be ordered on its own.

The character of a journey

Not a range, but a route. You travel from the Loire to Alsace, stage by stage.

The delicacies

Three French specialities from the house of Laroche with every stage, matched to the region and the wine.

The companion booklet

Every wine carries a story. The booklet brings it along, together with what is worth knowing about the region.

A collection

Twelve stages, twelve booklets. What remains is a collection on the shelf.

Take part

The Grand Tour prize draw

Share your Grand Tour moment on Instagram or Facebook and win the Normandy box with a total value of over 100 euros. Four draws per year.

This part of the country is a journey in itself.

From the booklet of stage 01 · Loire Valley

Gift

Give away the first stage

Laroche voucher for the first stage of the Grand Tour

A voucher for Bienvenue au Paradis with its own number. Whoever redeems it receives the box with three wines, three specialities and the booklet. Shipping of the box is included.

How should the voucher arrive?

Sending it as a gift? Enter the recipient as the delivery address at checkout, the box or the printed voucher then goes straight to them.

88.50 EUR, box shipping included · Online or in the store in Markt Piesting · Valid for three years

Channels

Laroche on social media

You will hear on our channels and in the newsletter when the next stage appears.

Chosen in person

Why Laroche?

“If it comes from you, it is always good. I do not need to taste it.”A chef to Louis-Pierre

20+ years

Cooked for his family as a teenager, selecting for Laroche since 2003

Origin

Winemakers & regions transparent

Everything in stock

Shipped the same or next working day, within Austria usually there in one day

Secure payment

Invoice, PayPal, card

Limited first edition

Be the first to get your start into the Grand Tour

The first edition is limited to 60 boxes. Whoever buys one receives 10 percent off the France Trilogy. The code is on the back of the booklet and is valid for 12 months. You will hear in the newsletter or on Instagram and Facebook when the Trilogy appears. For the later journeys you can pre-order without obligation.

Without obligation · No payment required · Can be cancelled at any time