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France's most progressive region? Languedoc reds, part 1

Monday 19 January 2026 • 10 min read
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Tam thinks so – and has nearly 200 red-wine recommendations to show for it. Come back tomorrow for the second half of this two-part review. See also Languedoc whites – looking to the future and Languedoc – the buzzword is garrigue.

I recently read a brilliant Substack article called ‘Nothing is still’ by a writer new to me: Bodhi Landa. It was about wine writing and tasting notes, and among the many provocative points made, he put forward that the way we learn about wine almost always leans on memorisation and tasting grids – a system that presents the...

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