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Languedoc

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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Maxime Magnon: La mise en bouteille in the suburbs

June 18, 2011

The Hautes Corbières, smack dab in the middle of the Languedoc and Roussillon regions that political convention have linked together as the Languedoc-Roussillon, is the wild west of French wine country. Incredibly tough terrain, windswept by the tramontane winds that come howling in from the northwest, this unspoiled country is really only good for two [...]

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Being crazy or impertinent isn’t a failing when making wine:
Château des Estanilles changes direction, its terroir doesn’t

June 5, 2011

I first wrote about the Château des Estanilles in May 2009 when Michel Louison owned the 35-ha domaine. Louison had purchased the property in the mid-1970s, attracted to the Faugères appellation by the wild landscape and the homogeneous, slightly acidic schist that can produce wines of striking freshness, with plenty of fruit and peppery flavors, [...]

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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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VinoCamp Carcassonne: In the land of the heretics

March 27, 2011

Carcassonne, the medieval fortress strategically positioned between the eastern Languedoc cities of Narbonne, Béziers and Montpelier and Toulouse, was the rear-guard stronghold for the ancient Counts of Toulouse. It also was famous as being a Cathar castle, taken in 1209 during the Albigensian Crusade. The declared reason for the crusade was to eradicate the Cathars, [...]

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