As you may know, the powers that be of the Languedoc are introducing a system of grand vin and grand cru . You may well ask: what’s the dif...
DOMAINE D'AUPILHAC
When I first visited Montpeyroux in the mid-1980s, the choice of wine was the coop, or the coop. There were no private estates until the en...
DOMAINE LA SARABANDE
Faugeres is a relatively small and compact appellation, compared to neighbouring St. Chinian. There are now nearly fifty estates, half of w...
A PRUNING LESSON
It’s been a wet month of March in the Languedoc. We got down to our house last Saturday and apparently missed some monsoon conditions a wee...
ST CHINIAN V. FAUGERES, AGAIN
Continuing to explore the similarities, or otherwise, between Faugères and St. Chinian, I found myself at a tasting of the wines of the la...
PICPOUL DE PINET - THE CAVE DE L'ORMARINE AT PINET
One of the highlights of the search for my book, The Wines of the South of France, was dinner at the restaurant La Côte Bleue outside Bouzig...
DOMAINE JEAN-MICHEL ALQUIER
Following on from the St. Chinian Faugeres tasting, here is a article that was published in the Quarterly Review of Wines, a year or so ago....
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