Wine with Leslie: Some value-for-money wines for the darkest month of the year
Wine columnist Leslie Williams: has the modestly-priced vino in hand
Just one more week to go in the darkest month of the year and like many of you I’m almost out of cash so my focus this week is on value-for-money-wines mainly from the Languedoc.
The Languedoc is easily France’s best spot for bargain wines with a bit of variation. You won’t ever see the word Languedoc on a label as it covers a vast area from the Côtes de Roussillon on the Spanish border, east to the Limoux region and North all the way up to Montpelier and Nîmes. The general appellation for branded and varietal wine is Pays d’Oc but there is an increasing number of wines labelled Vin de France which allows for innovation and unusual blends, sometimes with grapes from outside the region.
