Famille Fabre – Winery Escape Room

Like walking into what could easily be a scene out of a Danial Craig’s James Bond, an incredible combination of mystery and prime southern French architecture, we had a table laid out for us in the middle, already sun kissed and waiting, greeted by Jeanne Fabre and her partner, we enjoyed a lovely lunch and discovered their wines in a very relaxed manor, pairing them with a selection of lovely home cook dishes, after which, it was time for the ultimate challenge, to try our hand at escaping their Escape Room…

Famille Fabre is the first winery I’ve visited with it’s own Escape Room, which opened in 2021, without giving too much away, the experience will have you delving  into your wine making skills as you try to discover hard evidence and stop the sale of fraudulent wines before your winery is driven under by the undercutting of prices which no one can match. If you visit Famille Fabre for a wine tasting, I think it would be a missed opportunity not to take an hour out of your day to try and escape their Escape Room for yourself.

What Was The Inspiration Behind Creating An Escape Game At Famille Fabre?

“I guess my first inspiration was to find a way to share the long history of my family, passionate about the same job of winemaking since 1605… I wanted to use all these little anecdotes and objects that give so much interest to the big history, because it makes it alive!

Why an escape room? Maybe because I hate when people get bored, or have the feeling they are trapped into some lecture given by somebody who knows everything; I wanted people to experience by themselves, to have fun, to have to collaborate and plan strategies…

It is the same core value you can find in any activity at Château de Luc;

We don’t teach you if a wine is better or worse, we try to give you confidence in your own capacity to taste and like or not a wine.

The message: you are the main character of the whole adventure, and wine is not an elite product; it is all about pleasure and sharing a fabulous experience.

Escape game is a great support for that, and I thank my friend Mathieu from Instinct Escape who helped a lot for the secret mechanisms and enigmas… We wanted the game to be hyper professional, so people have really to struggle to find their way to the end… Suspense is everything!” – Jeanne Fabre