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...
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