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...

See full tasting note s on Seppeltsfield and Roussillon wines, including six wines more than 100 years old. There is an upside to unfashionable wines. People don't buy them, so...

In a nutshell: A tradition of rich dessert wines but reinventing its characterful dry reds and whites. Grapes: Grenache (red), Muscat, Grenache Blanc, Maccabéo (white)...

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...

David Woodford, London: I just got back from picking in Paziols/Tuchan and thought you'd like to know that while the first part of the harvest was dry, the weather broke down at the start of...

I recently had the chance to compare three great dry white 2003s from a corner of France not commonly associated with such a style, the rocky hills of Roussillon in the eastern Pyrenean...

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...

Purple pager Jonathan Hesford of Domaine Treloar in Roussillon writes: [UK wine merchant] Leon Stolarski and I have been working on a project called Chateau McGuire, which is...

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....