Well I’ve put off writing about a fantastic subject… but as I write my paper I am reminded that a large part of our trip focused around the wine of the region.
The strangest thing for me is that many of the viticulturists of France chose to practice organically, but would not label their wine as such because of the negative stigma of organic wines. Instead they practiced organic methods out of principle. And it was comforting to heat them talk about their 100 year old vines with pride and their new plantings of unique varieties with equal excitement. It made the wine much more important and thus you seemed obliged to taste every hint of flavor which their terroir had instilled in the wine.
I’ve finally uploaded many of my pictures so I thought I’d share:
A Coop We visited in the Languedoc region
100 year old grapevines... wow
A tasting at a private cellar... but I didn't spit mine out
