LAnguedoc Archives | Palate Press

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Each week until the end of the year we’ll take a look at different types of sparkling wines – Champagne included, of course – so you’ll be able to make a great choice for your New Year’s Eve occasion. Rather than an exhaustive explanation of champagnes and sparkling wines, this series is Read More

Outstanding value in St. Chinian

Simon J Woolf

Features Wine Spotlight

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Developing a taste for fine wine can sometimes be more a curse than a blessing. There are moments when drinkability alone isn't enough. Simple fruit-driven wines fail to satisfy. Perhaps you crave more sophistication, character, elegance or complexity – a wine that goes beyond being mere liquid, providing contemplation into Read More

Côte Mas Crémant de Limoux Rose

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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Strawberry bubbles! The nose has aromas of dried strawberries and rose water. The palate opens with strawberry. Sweeter cherry comes out on the mid-palate, with a touch of salinity and rosemary. It ends with a twist of lemon, which lingers with the mid-palate flavors. Drink with potato pancakes with sour Read More

2012 Redux: Languedoc Paradox, How a Big French Region is Trying to Show its Identity

Remy Charest

Features

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Palate Press has selected our top ten stories from 2012 and will publish a 2012 Redux article each weekday until January 4, 2013. These stories highlight our featured columnists, widely recognized contributors, and most popular works published through the year. The Palate Press editorial board hopes you enjoy these highlights as we look Read More

Languedoc Paradox: How a Big French Region is Trying to Show its Identity

Remy Charest

Features

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In the world of marketing and sales, it's always good when you can keep things simple. Of course, this can be quite a challenge for an industry like the wine industry, where realities of place, grapes, vintages, styles, and terroir add up as so many variables to take into account—enough Read More

NV Moulin de Lene “Le Reve de Marie”

Gary Thomas

Wine Reviews

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A nice vin de pays from a somewhat overlooked area of Languedoc. (If there was a vintage on this either it was invisible or the vintage sticker fell off.) This cab franc exhibits dark purple color, and is somewhat jammy on the nose, with elements of earth and pepper. Solid Read More

2007 Pierre Gaillard Faugères “Transhumance”

Becky Sue Epstein

Wine Reviews

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Cows and sheep trekking down from the mountains have nothing to do with the “Transhumance” name of the wine; instead it’s the winemaker himself who makes the journey from the Northern Rhone down to the Languedoc region in the south of France. There, he has produced an earthy, smoky, syrah-based Read More

Languedoc, History and Scenery, Taken with a Glass of Wine

Michelle Locke

Features

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The Languedoc wine region did not live up to my expectations, and that worked out just fine. Set in the south of France, Languedoc does not have the name-recognition of Bordeaux or Burgundy. And what reputation it does have is-read more- Read More

Countdown to New Year’s Eve: South Africa, France, and Gilding the Lily

Outstanding value in St. Chinian

Côte Mas Crémant de Limoux Rose

2012 Redux: Languedoc Paradox, How a Big French Region is Trying to Show its Identity

Languedoc Paradox: How a Big French Region is Trying to Show its Identity

NV Moulin de Lene “Le Reve de Marie”

2007 Pierre Gaillard Faugères “Transhumance”

Languedoc, History and Scenery, Taken with a Glass of Wine

2019 Sassotondo Ciliegiolo Maremma Toscana, Tuscany, Italy

2019 Red Electric “Alpine Lily” Chardonnay, Willamette Valley, Oregon

2017 Valle Dell’Acate ‘Il Moro’ Nero d’Avola, Sicily

2018 Notturno Drei Donà Romagna DOC Predappio Sangiovese

2019 Jordan Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County