The first evening in our Languedoc home for three months and friends coming to dinner – so a good opportunity to open a bottle or two. First...
MAS GABRIEL at the Solicitors' Wine Society
Christmas deadlines seem to have taken over and I’ve neglected my blog for the last week or three - apologies – I’m not sure where the days ...
ORGANIC AND BIODYNAMIC WINES FROM THE LANGUEDOC AND ROUSSILLON
The autumn organic tasting at the Maison du Languedoc in Cavendish Square seems to have become an annual event. This year there were 18 pro...
LANGUEDOC FIGURES
This figures came my way earlier in the week: Compare 1980 with 2010: Thirty years ago there were seven appellations, Fitou, Blanquette de L...
LANGUEDOC CLARIFICATION - or not?
This is an attempt, probably a vain attempt, to throw some light on the fluctuating classification system of the Languedoc The INAO, the org...
NOTRE DAME DE MOUGERES
Another new tasting caveau , this time at Notre Dame de Mougères. And as well as wine, you can buy delicious local honeys and various other...
VIN DE LA GRANGE - A STORY OF COURAGE
It can take something dramatic to prompt a grape grower to start making their own wine. For Eric Morot it was the devastating hail storm th...
DOMAINE DE MONPLEZY
My friend Anne Sutra de Germa has just opened a neat little tasting caveau at Domaine de Monplézy, just outside Pézenas, so we went to chec...
DOMAINE FONTEDICTO
I first visited Bernard Bellahsen when I was researching The Wines of the South of France, when he was a lone pioneer of organic and bio-dyn...
CONCOURS DE ST APHRODISE - in London
The wine competition named after St. Aphrodise, the patron saint of Béziers, concentrates on the white wines of the region. Not a trace of...
DOMAINE LE BOUC A TROIS PATTES
Who has ever met a three legged goat? Not unless it has had a horrible accident. The name apparently is a parody on a wine called le mout...
ASDW TASTING
The ASDW tasting - in other words The Association of Small Direct Wine Merchants and an eclectic band of small specialists in Italy, Austral...
MAS DE CYNANQUE
I have tasted and enjoyed Xavier de Franssu's wines a couple of times at the Salon des Vignerons Indépendents in Paris, and so asked if...
MAS CHAMPART
Isabelle Champart and her husband Matthieu arrived in St. Chinian in 1976, from the north of France. They slowly developed their vineyards...
IMPRESSIONS OF 2011
First of all, apologies for a two week silence. Blame technical problems with a new computer ……. Wine growing friends came to dinner, I ori...
ST CHINIAN - DOMAINE LA MADURA
Cyril Bourgne is one of the more thoughtful and analytical wine makers of St. Chinian, and very committed and very focused. It may be somet...
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