Things to do in the Languedoc: Drinking Wine and Making Wines: AOC
Wines
- Banyuls, also Banyuls Grand Cru, aperitifs
- Blanquette de Limoux, The area around Limoux
produces sparkling white wines called Blanquette and Cremant
(less sweet). Click here for more on Blanquette
de Limoux
and Cremant
de Limoux
- Cabardes AQVDQS
- Clairette de Bellegarde
- Clairette du Languedoc
- Collioure
- The
Corbières
- Costieres de Nimes
- Coteaux du Languedoc
- Cotes de La Malepere http://www.vins-malepere.com
- Cotes du Roussillon
- Cotes du Roussillon-Villages
- Faugeres
- Fitou, produced the Département of the Pyrénées-Orientales,
increasingly popular internationally
- Limoux
- Maury
- Minervois
- Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise, Muscat de Lunel,
Muscat de Mireval, Muscat de Rivesaltes, Muscat
de Saint-Jean de Minervois
- Rivesaltes, sweet white wine drunk as an aperatif
Saint-Chinian
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Also recommended: a Pyrenean
wine based aperatif called Byrrh, produced
around Thuir.
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Vineyard, Herault, Languedoc, France Photographic
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Wheeler, Nik |
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Wine tasters
from Occitania - Modern Northern Italy, end
of the fourteenth century. detail from Tacuinum
Sanitatis, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
(Vienna, Austria), Codex Vindobonensis S.N.
2644, fol. 86v
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Wine
Makers from Occitania - Modern Northern Italy,
end of the fourteenth century. detail from Tacuinum
Sanitatis, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
(Vienna, Austria), Codex Vindobonensis S.N.
2644, fol. 86v
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