Languedoc AOC areas The Languedoc’s vineyards spread across the Gard, Hérault and Aude ‘departments’. Around Montpellier Coteaux-du-Languedoc (CDL) and its subzones: CDL Terres de Sommières CDL Pic-Saint-Loup CDL Grés-de-Montpellier CDL Pézenas Cabrières Clairette-de-Bellegarde Clairette-du-Languedoc Picpoul-de-Pinet Muscat-de-Lunel Muscat-de-Mireval Muscat-de-Frontignan
Around Béziers At the foot of the Causse du Larzac in the Hérault; CDL Les-Terrasses-du-Larzac CDL Terrasses-de-Béziers In the foothills of the Cévennes and Montagne Noire ranges: Faugères, Saint-Chinian (and the village zones of Berlou and Roquebrun)
Around Carcassonne Saint-Jean-de-Minervois, Minervois Minervois-la-Livinière From this area, Domus Maximus 2000 from Domaine Massamier La Mignarde was awarded the French Red Trophy for Syrah-Grenache-Mourvèdre blends in the International Wine Challenge 2005. Cabardès Côtes-de-la-Malepère Limoux AOCs: Blanquette-de-Limoux, Blanquette-méthode-ancestrale (both sparkling), Chardonnay, red blends...
Around Narbonne CDL La Clape et Quatourze Corbières (mostly red but increasingly good whites emerging) Fitou, which is split into two: coastal and inland Fitou Producers’ association website for the whole region: Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Languedoc or CIVL: www.languedoc-wines.com
Growers’ blogs http://www.domainedelaprose.com http://lisson.over-blog.com/article-1711078.html http://www.vins-sigaliere.com/index.php
The Roussillon or French Catalonia The Roussillon vineyards, with over 24,000 ha in the Pyrénées-Orientales (East Pyrenees) department/region either side of Perpignan, show a degree of uniformity within a mountain framework in the Pyrenees foothills; the Corbières (to the north), Canigou (to the west), the Albères (to the south on the Spanish border). Mostly red wine: Côtes-du-Roussillon, Côtes-du-Roussillon-Villages to the north (with these villages named on the label: Caramany, Latour de France, Lesquerde and Tautavel), Collioure and its ‘Vins Doux Naturels’ (sweet fortified wines, white and red): Muscat-de-Rivesaltes, Maury, Rivesaltes, Banyuls.
Website CIVR - Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Roussillon (regional producers’ association)
Growers’ blogs http://closdesfees.aquaray.com/dotclear/index.php http://cecicela.typepad.com/vigneron_blog/2006/01/des_piquets_enc.html
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