Bentley Rental in Saint-Tropez

Saint-Tropez is, above all, a place of appetite — for food, for wine, for the particular quality of light that turns the Var countryside the colour of warm stone by early afternoon. The culinary logic here begins inland, where the Massif des Maures produces some of the most underestimated red wines in France — Château Minuty, Domaine Ott — before the Route des Crêtes carries you back toward the coast through terraced vineyards and dry-herb air that smells of thyme and sun-warmed earth. This is the road that earns the lunch. And lunch, in Saint-Tropez, is a serious institution. At Club 55 on Pampelonne Beach, the ritual has barely changed in seven decades: grilled sea bass, tomatoes from the kitchen garden, a carafe of pale pink Provence rosé cold enough to fog the glass. The Var's markets — Place des Lices on Tuesday and Saturday mornings — supply the vocabulary for understanding why this corner of France eats the way it does: figs, anchovies, ratte potatoes, tapenade pressed the same morning. Arrive in a Zeus Prestige car worthy of the address, and the afternoon takes care of itself.