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Terrasses du Larzac

Virgile Joly: a professor of wine who is
as comfortable in overalls as tweeds

July 11, 2011

With his somewhat unruly hair and corduroy jacket, it’s easy to imagine Virgile Joly as the science teacher that he almost became. If he hadn’t attended a university lecture about winemaking, making him decide to abandon his two years of studying to become a teacher and to switch to an oenology program, he might have [...]

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You’ve got to know when to hold, know when to fold…

May 8, 2011

Even before a coalition of farmers, ecologists and communists threw down the gauntlet to Mondavi, this part of the Languedoc was already shedding its reputation for producing oceans of cheap wine. Winemakers like the coalition’s unofficial leader, Aimé Guibert, whose Mas de Daumas Gassac vineyard in Aniane produces an internationally renowned red, and Olivier Jullien, [...]

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A ‘Must’ event at Vinisud: Pascal Fullá and
the Le Mas de l’Ecriture ‘Off’ vertical tasting

March 7, 2010

Parallel to the 1,600 exhibitor booths, multiple wine-tasting events, and conference sessions at Vinisud were a series of so-called “Off’ events. The name comes from a French propensity to borrow an English word or expression (“le week-end,” “un leader,” “le smoking,” etc.) and to use it to express something else. In this case, ‘Off” is [...]

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Le Mas de l’Ecriture: Wine in the pluperfect sense

October 8, 2009

Pascal Fullá, the owner of Le Mas de l’Ecriture, gave up a law career in 1998 to become a winemaker. He’s not the first attorney-turned-winemaker I have met or read about. Why an attorney would exchange the bar for a tractor is certainly an interesting, philosophical question; for Fullá it was the cure for a [...]

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Domaine de Familongue: Treating carignan with respect

June 1, 2009

A former French postal employee and a dentist may seem like an unlikely winemaking couple. Yet former fonctionaire Martine Quinquarlet and her husband, Jean Luc, have created a well-respected vineyard in the Terrasses du Larzac subzone of the Coteaux du Languedoc appellation, a mineral-rich area that is thought by many to be the finest terroir [...]

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