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Terrasses du Larzac

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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The Terrasses du Larzac hospitality empire

May 18, 2009

For over a thousand years pilgrims have made the small villages that dot the foothills of France’s Massif Central, where the plateau of Larzac drops down to the Mediterranean, a stopping point on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Whereas pilgrims in medieval times were seeking absolution from their sins, my wife and [...]

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