Living surrounded by vineyards,the temptations are limitless.A little chilled rosé  on the terrace at lunchtime, sheltered from the searing heat, slips down all too easily and  before you know it the rest of the day has passed in a soporific haze.
However François and Vincent Pugibet of the Domaine  la Colombette just outside Béziers have come [...]

After the encouragement of my reader(see Truffles galore) there will be no stopping me now!
I could probably  just write about wine for the rest of this year but that would be even more boring than my usual outpourings. But wine does dominate the landscape and the economy down here. There are of course farmers who [...]

Life in the Languedoc has so many advantages that although I have no statistics to prove it, I am convinced that there are many   reasons why retired people can expect to increase their life expectancy by at least 5 years!Why?
1) Stress.
Life in England is stressful because of the density of population and the ever-present [...]