People think of Mediterranean beaches when they think of the Languedoc, wrote Sylvie Tonnaire, Editor of France’s glossy Terre des Vins wine magazine. But you just have to stand with your back to to the sea to see that the landscape rises, and rises, and rises … up to 1000 m and more. And the vines rise […]
The pre-Christmas edition of Wine Spectator awards our Limoux Chardonnay, Odyssée, with 90 p0ints and tips it for the Savvy Shopper’s Great Value Picks.
Harold Hamersma, an inluential Dutch wine-writer, tasted a number of wines from the Rives-Blanques range or his guide, “de Grote Hamersma”. Leading the way was our “star wine”, the sparkling Blanquette de Limoux, “a classy wine, more so than many Champagnes” he said. Hot on its heels came the non-sparkling Mauzac, Occitania, also with 9- points, […]
The new edition of the famous “Green Guide” to French wines came out with its selection of the best 7000 wines of over 30,000 tasted across all appellations throughout the land. Of all the white wine grapes grown in the Languedoc, Chardonnay was the incontestable star, they said. “It can be quite remarkable in Limoux, […]