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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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