I had a “Roussillon moment” that haunted me for more than six years. In May 2014, I traveled from Napa to Philadelphia to take the Wine & Spirit Education Trust Level 3 blind tasting and theory exam ...
The Languedoc Roussillon region sometimes gets overlooked when it comes to wine regions in France. What a shame. Like many wine regions in France, including the Rhone region, Loire Valley and Bordeaux ...
The names of French wine regions—Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy—roll readily off most wine drinkers' tongues. But Roussillon represents a kind of linguistic roadblock. "Is that in France?" was the ...
It’s forbidden for visitors to scratch at the ridge the village of Roussillon is built on. The ochre loaded soil is soft and porous and quick to erode. But, in spite of these disadvantages, it has ...