The Occitan word for stranger is estranhièr – a hauntingly beautiful word. And the broad swathe of Mediterranean coastline from Nîmes to the Spanish border has certainly been strongly...

There's a useful thread in the travel section of our Members' forum on places to eat and producers to visit in the Languedoc-Roussillon. Here are the restaurants and more modest places to eat...

Here at last is our long-trailed collection of tasting notes on the vast twin wine regions of Languedoc and Roussillon. Although it includes notes on almost 400 different wines, it is just a...

2009 A warm and smaller than average year, especially for whites. Quality is very high quality across the region. 2008 Variable weather and drought in the summer made this a challenging...

We have spent the last 15 summers in the same wine-producing village in the Languedoc but this is the first year we have ever seen the special grape harvest signs by the side of the road. Slow...

The 2011 grape harvest across Europe has been a varied one, with grape health threatened in many areas thanks to an inclement summer - although there has recently been a hot spell in...

I have already written several times about Les Clos Perdus, the Languedoc-Roussillon producer based in Peyriac de Mer run by English ex-farmer Hugo Stewart and Australian ex-dancer Paul Old ('the...

See my tasting notes on 70+ Grands Crus du Languedoc, and an update on the proposal from our forum . Oh dear. Will wine and local politics ever blend into one harmonious cuvée? I...

Those in charge of upgrading the image and sales of wines from the south of France, or Sud de France as it has been rebranded, have devised a new way of presenting three layers of wine quality...

Sud de France held their annual Languedoc-Roussillon Sommelier of the Year competition on Monday amid slightly less fanfare than the inaugural event last year, but much fiercer competition....

I've been keenly following Le Soula, a joint venture between revered Roussillon winemaker Gérard Gauby and UK importer Richards Walford, since the debut vintage of 2001, a wine of the week back...

I was so thrilled by the enthusiastic response to France's best kept secret about the great wines to be found in Languedoc-Roussillon, and the accompanying 200+ tasting notes , published last...

The art of writing is very similar to making wine, says Pascal Fulla, by way of explaining why he named his Languedoc winery Mas de l’Écriture. He went on to say that both are expressions of...

For wine consumers, especially those who like hand-crafted, highly individual wines that express the place where they were grown and are sensibly priced, the Languedoc-Roussillon is the perfect...

I firmly believe that the south of France is home to some of the best wine value in the world and outline the special characteristics, positive and negative, of the Languedoc-Roussillon in...