The celebrated British wine writer, Jancis Robinson MW has taken a close interest in the wines of the Languedoc ever since she bought a house there nearly 40 years ago.  Today, she says, “there has been a massive relandscaping of the region”, with the total area under vine shrinking to about  half its size at that time, and the focus on ‘better less fertile sites [….] typically run as small family concerns”.

“White wines are becoming seriously interesting” she said, while “reds have been freshening up a bit”.

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Rives-Blanques, she says, is ‘an old favourite’ of her website for its still and sparkling wines.  The Odyssée (chardonnay) is “quite Chablis like”, the Dédicace is a ‘text book Chenin’, while Occitania, the mauzac, is “a fine, distinctive local product”.