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A CHANCE BOTTLE – 2008 Corbières, Ch â teau Trillol Rootling around our cellar yesterday evening, looking for a cheerful bottle to go with ...

There was a large tasting of the wines of Roussillon at the Maison du Languedoc earlier this autumn. I was dashing off to Chablis the next ...

Friends for dinner last night provided the occasion to see how just well the Languedoc ages. But first a refreshing Picpoul de Pinet from...

A day of tasting organic wines at the Maison du Languedoc. This is now an annual event, with fifteen producers exhibiting their wines. So...

This is a great wine fair covering the whole of France, with around a thousand wine growers, all under one roof at the Porte de Versailles, ...

I’ve just returned from a wonderful week in Turkey. The purpose of my trip was the European Wine Bloggers’ Conference, the EWBC for short, ...

The Outsiders are a group of ten wine growers from Languedoc-Roussillon, who were not born and bred in the region. Their origins are as var...

I had met Pierre Jacquet at an event for Faugères’ 30 th birthday party, and wanted to follow up the suggestion of a cellar visit before the...

A chance encounter with Paul Lignères of Ch â teau la Baronne over lunch at Easter led to a cellar visit in the Corbières in September. ...

This is an annual tasting that I really enjoy. Wine writers, and this year, for the first time, sommeliers, are asked to choose three of th...