See our Languedoc tasting notes Wine pricing is all over the place, and has never been a sure guide to quality. But this is particularly true about French wine. Certain regions –...

The owner of Ch St-Jacques d'Albas in the Minervois sends this rather depressing report. Our Australian winemaking consultant, Richard Osborne, describes the 2012 harvest as the most...

The vast Languedoc-Roussillon wine region is home to probably hundreds of artisan winemakers who make lovely wines chock full of terroir and interest but who have very little idea of how to sell...

See our forthcoming collection of reviews of the Languedoc - France's best-value wine region. For those wishing to stay in the very centre of the Languedoc-Roussillon vineyard...

See our new guide to all readers’ restaurant reviews , and further suggestions for dining in this region on the forum . Not all of this region's cooking is straight out of a chemistry...

See our new  guide to all readers’ restaurant reviews . Living in France, I thought that we would have a great choice of wonderful restaurants. In some parts there are. After selling our...

Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d'Albas sends us this heartfelt report on a difficult vintage in the Minervois, Languedoc. The year has been a theatre of fluctuating weather patterns,...

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...

Graham Nutter of Ch St Jacques d'Albas in the Minervois sends the following report of the harvest just completed. After a winter with low rainfall, a spring of unusual snowfalls, a...

See also my tasting notes and the videos Anne Gros in the Minervois and Anne Gros' curious Cinsault - which gave rise to the relatively long thread on the forum Hurrah for...

You may remember Richard Neville's long Dec 2008 account of the viticultural despair where he now lives, From a Languedoc village . As I have pointed out, most recently in France's best-kept...

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 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...

Languedoc News, published by the trade organisation the Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Languedoc, reports a small crop but what looks to be a great vintage - what they actually say is...