LANGUEDOC & PROVENCE SUN

"Tissier calls the CRAC centre; an 'art space' rather than a museum, because there is no permanent collection. Rotating exhibitions highlight artists from around the region and around the world".

There’s no shortage of choice of wines in Southern France. Just as you manage to learn the names of the many grape varieties, you suddenly discover wines promoting themselves as organic or biodynamic, or the new buzz word 'natural'. But what does it all mean?
The answer reflects the broader shift we’ve seen in food production over the last decade or so; a movement away from processed, mass produced foodstuffs to fresh, unadulterated produce with respect to its origins and the methods of cultivation. Today we make more informed choices about our bread, eggs and meat — now it's the turn of the wine that we drink with them.

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Wandering across Provence and Languedoc in search of the Romans it comes as no surprise that they were here for 600 years. It can feel as though they never actually went away. Their monuments and astonishing engineering feats still dominate our landscape and several of our cities – bridges, aqueducts, amphitheatres, temples, baths, triumphal arches and stretches of road that bisect the countryside. Their amphitheatres are perfect for bull-fights, their theatres for concerts and operas, while their roads are the basis of the ones we drive on today.

 
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