Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d'Albas in Laure Minervois (pictured here) reports on his experience of the 2009 growing season and harvest in Minervois. For other Languedoc harvest reports,...

Limoux is a surprising enclave within the Languedoc, a region known best by wine lovers for its big, beefy reds made from such assertive red wine varieties as Syrah, Mourvèdre and Carignan....

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...

In the last few days I have been in the Languedoc, Greater Burgundy and Bordeaux. As I have been reporting, not least in yesterday's Scenes from Languedoc life, this has been the most wonderful...

The Frenchman who encouraged me to brush my teeth immediately after tasting his wines, as described  yesterday in The French adore... , was Gérard Bertrand, as portrayed  here and in...

Here's a little film of vineyards next to the Canal du Midi, the 17th-century miracle of engineering that connected the Atlantic to the Mediterranean  and which is virtually unchanged today,...

See the resulting thread in members' forum. You know how European wine producers and non Europeans have always fought for the moral high ground?  Europeans accuse New World...

Yesterday was so hot we had to head for the sea. Today is even hotter. I can't remember such a long period of hot weather here in the Languedoc before or since 2003 - although the temperatures are...

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...

From £7.75 Find these wines (website being updated with these wines today) This outfit seems to be getting better and better. I first picked out their 2004 reds as my wine of...

£5.79 Julia tasted this wine last October and identified it as one of the better value wines in Waitrose – 187 tasting notes . I included it in a tasting I organised for the sales team of...

£5.99 Find this wine Poor old Languedoc wine producers. So many of them make such great-value wine but are finding it the devil's own job to sell it - not least because the name...

Some of you may remember Richard Neville, who kindly wrote this account of Bruges for travel tips and this exceptionally detailed guide to Belgian beers (of which an updated version will be...

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." Aldous Huxley. The Kathleen &...

Graham Nutter of Ch St-Jacques d’Albas in the Minervois (pictured) sends this report of the 2008 vintage. Summary: A year characterised by a highly variable climate and summer...