IT’S not easy being an afterthought, yet that’s exactly what has happened to the tail of the fused French compound region commonly referred to in wine books as Languedoc-Roussillon. Hyphenation, in ...

I am planning to stay the better part of a week in the Luberon; I haven't visited this part of France before. I have friends who liked Lourmarin, but Roussillon seems like a possibility, too. I am a ...

The French commune of Roussillon is located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, roughly midway between Avignon and Aix-en-Provence. Situated in the heart of one of the biggest ochre deposits in the ...

UNCORK an old-vine red from Roussillon, the wine region in southeastern France near the Spanish border, and pour a Grenache-Carignane blend, perhaps, from the hot new domaine Clos des Fées. Now take ...

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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 ...

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 ...