Wines in Languedoc-Roussillon, South of France

Pioneering wine region, Languedoc-Roussillon has managed to combine a range of typical and truly singular appellation wines and vin de pays d'Oc.

In Languedoc-Roussillon, the wines guide you along a never-ending journey!

Vineyards - Languedoc Roussillon wines

It was daring ; and is a success thirty years later, to explore these two parallel tracks that are so complementary. Any winemaker is now eligible for the brand Sud de France and the region has witnessed the development of the generic Languedoc appellation, produced throughout the vineyards of Languedoc-Roussillon, from Nîmes to the Spanish border. In this mass of vineyards composed of soils with high yields, it took a change of habits - to stop a wasteful flow of wine by lowering the amount produced per hectare - to reach the level of quality achieved today. This quality is soaked in diversity, in a territory which produces sweet fortified wines (Muscat from Frontignan, Lunel, Mireval, Saint- Jean-de- Minervois, Rivesaltes, Banyuls and Maury), sparkling wines (Blanquette and Cremant de Limoux) and an extensive bouquet of reds, whites and multiple roses.
For its current reputation, this land of vineyards owes much to the men who built it with a spirit of innovation. Here, wines that were previously mass produced strode for quality born from concepts. To make wine, grape vine by grape vine variety and invite the consumer to discover a shiraz, a cabernet or a sauvignon. This was the initiative of the Skalli establishment in Sete.

The region promises evolution and is nevertheless the top wine region in the world with a vineyard of nearly 240 000 hectares, 25 000 wine producers and 2 500 wine cellars.

For five years now, the Sud de France brand has gathered all the region has to offer, to enhance the colours of this wine region in France and beyond ; colours as diverse as its schist soils, which fortify the wines from Saint-Chinian, Cotes du Roussillon and the Coteaux du Languedoc ; as rich as its Shingle land - called Grés in Occitan - that make the wines of the Domain Puech Haut unforgettable, and that is the origin of the Grés appellation of Montpellier, brilliantly illustrated by the Clavel Domain. These Grés are typical of the Corbières, spicy red wines that belong to one of the most important appellations in France, and make the terroirs of Lézignan, Boutenac and Lagrasse resonate with meaning.

And yet, after the policies of uprooting, the concentration of its cooperative economic tissue served the ambitions of a growing trade, the region has begun the conversion of its vineyards. The Qualitative market of the Languedoc-Roussillon region is now accompanied by a conversion of the vineyards to organic farming, now covering more than 30 % of its acreage. It is an exemplary region from this point of view, concentrating over 12 000 hectares of domains already converted and nearly 8000 in mid-conversion. The success of the Aupilhac domain in Montpeyroux is the best example of producers of organic wines on the move, such as the Chateau l'Hospitalet, Chateau Cazeneuve and the Villa Tempora.