Languedoc wine

Wine dominates Languedoc. The Languedoc– Roussillon wine region stretches from below Perpignan in the South West to Arles in the Rhone – one vast vineyard covering approximately 170,000 hectares of vines, representing over a third of France’s total vineyard area. Wine has always been taken very seriously here.

After getting a reputation for producing cheap and cheerful wines, 'Vin de Plonc' for France's homes and inexpensive restaurants, new vines were planted in the 1950’s as part of a general move to produce higher quality wines (A.O.C.).

Nearly all the Languedoc wines are blended which makes it such fun finding a really good one. I hope you find our Wine Section interesting and useful.

You'll find links to all the pages in the section to the right - including descriptions of each of Languedoc's Domains, the history of wine in the area, a run down of the grape varieties used to produce wine here, wine reviews (to help you avoid the rubbish!) and a link to our WIne Tasting page in the Activities Section.

Dégustez – vous bien!

- Simon Charles