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Wine in Languedoc
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Published 2012
‘In Languedoc all roads lead to wine, or start from it,’ wrote the historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. My first drive through the Languedoc plains and their tight little villages was before this broad wine country had its change of heart; we saw hundreds upon hundreds of miles of vines, and we knew it as the place that made vin ordinaire or, in translation, plonk.
Today those who still make large quantities of everyday wine to be sold for almost nothing are the conservative souls who cling to tradition. The enterprising, and the younger wine-makers, have built on the marvellous discovery that this terrain is not only perfect for making quality wine, it is as good as the very best. Today there are top-quality wines to be found here at a fraction of the price of their counterparts in Burgundy and Bordeaux.
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