Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The name Languedoc in Southern France is filled with history, excitement, poetry, and love. Think of the troubadours in ...

Last fall we attended a wine party in Quarante, a charming hamlet in the Languedoc region of southern France. The village was tiny. The house was anything but, with three stories, six bedrooms, a pool ...

Coming over the scrubby massif from Gérard Bertrand’s wine estate in La Clape, a sub-appellation of the Languedoc, the sky drops down to the sea and after a few winds of the road—like the clicks in a ...

In the Languedoc region of France, Thomas Duroux eyes the dark red soil at the base of a thicket of arbutus trees. "These trees, this earth," he says. "This is what you need for a great, great wine." ...

A good place to start is Carcassonne, a medieval hilltop town in the western corner of the Languedoc, overlooking the river Aude. The lure is La Cité, a 10th-century citadel both fairy-tale and ...

For this region, once known for its vast output of inexpensive wines, the journey toward recognition has been long and winding. Is a destination any closer? By Eric Asimov Not so long ago, the ...

On a recent trip to France, I fell in love with what might be called the Cinderella of French wine regions, Languedoc. While other areas such as Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and Rhone get a lot of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. France’s Languedoc is a study in the untrustworthiness of tradition. The ...

The imprecision of the language used to describe the wines can muddle the clarity of their stylistic differences. Credit...Pepe Serra Supported by By Eric Asimov While I was drinking one of the three ...