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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For a start the winegrowing area is vast — 224,000 hectares. That’s larger than Kilkenny, Wicklow or Offaly, and almost as big as Louth, Carlow and Dublin combined. That’s some vineyard, stretching ...

The Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France is where, several decades ago, I first learned to love French wine and food. The vineyards around the small village near Montpellier where I stayed ...

Now, I’m no wine expert. Sure, I know I like the stuff and I can tell a Malbec from a Sauvignon Blanc, but when it comes to bouquets, lengthy finishes and vertical tasting, you’ll get a blank look ...

While it might not be as well-known as other wine regions, Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France is the largest vine-growing area in the world. Particularly known for its red wines, which flourish ...

Languedoc-Roussillon is the French Mediterranean in third gear, with a comfortable shabby-chic charm all its own. One of its great assets is that it scrunches a lot of exciting geography in a small ...

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 ...

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This week I’m taking a snapshot of the Languedoc-Roussillon, easily the most unwieldy wine region in France and arguably the world. This is a huge region comprising five départments in south-east ...