It's an industry truism that professional tour guides love to tout their own destinations, sometimes coming up with prideful superlatives that can be a bit hard for visitors to swallow. It was, ...

Rather than building its reputation around a single grape, Languedoc has embraced diversity, creating a mosaic of appellations that continues to redefine what modern French wine can be.

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The seemingly sleepy Occitanie area in the South of France—stretching from the lavender-studded Provence to the Pyrenees—is wrapped in acres of vineyard, sunflower meadows, and dotted with chateaux.

Stretching north from the Spanish border, around the arc of the Mediterranean Sea, southern France’s Languedoc-Roussillon is the largest winegrowing region in the world. Yet until the most recent few ...

Coming over the scrubby massif from Gérard Bertrand’s wine estate in La Clape, a sub-appellation of the Languedoc, the sky drops down to the sea and after a few winds of the road—like the clicks in a ...

A haven for wine lovers, if the Languedoc-Roussillon isn’t on your bucket list, it should be. With its thriving wine tourism and vast parcels of vineyards – springtime is a wonderful time to visit ...

The Languedoc Roussillon region sometimes gets overlooked when it comes to wine regions in France. What a shame. Like many wine regions in France, including the Rhone region, Loire Valley and Bordeaux ...

What's in the name? Languedoc literally means "language of yes" – langue d'oc – but obviously something goes missing in translation. "Oc" was how the Occitan-speaking inhabitants of this part of south ...

Roaming around the towns and villages of Languedoc-Roussillon, expect to come face to face with ancient relics and modernist delights, writes Gilly Pickup Mammoth, mighty, monumental, majestic – the ...

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