Wine: A profile of Gérard Bertrand

This week - a mini profile of Gérard Bertrand, one of the best-known winemakers of the Languedoc, perhaps France’s most dynamic wine region.

Bertrand was born in Corbières and grew up among the vines but knows a little of the world from his former life as a professional rugby player. The phrase “Gallic charm” was invented for him.

Bertrand’s wines are available from O’Briens and he was over recently presenting the new vintage of his show stopper wine Clos d’Ora which costs €180 — given its combination of elegance and decadence I could see why — one for the lotto win perhaps.