Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about wine, travel and lifestyle from a base in France The section on the Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France has two ...

The seemingly sleepy Occitanie area in the South of France—stretching from the lavender-studded Provence to the Pyrenees—is wrapped in acres of vineyard, sunflower meadows, and dotted with chateaux.

The wide beach at Roussillon, on France's Languedoc coast, is known as Argelès-Plage and is popular with families and watersports enthusiasts. In a six-mile stretch, this beach has everything. To the ...

Languedoc-Roussillon is the French Mediterranean in third gear, with a comfortable shabby-chic charm all its own. One of its great assets is that it scrunches a lot of exciting geography in a small ...

What's in the name? Languedoc literally means "language of yes" – langue d'oc – but obviously something goes missing in translation. "Oc" was how the Occitan-speaking inhabitants of this part of south ...

Since at least the 1990s, people have been hailing the make over of France's Languedoc. By far the country's largest vineyard area,it hugs the sunny Mediterranean coastline from the Pyrenees on the ...

Corbieres, Minervois and Saint-Chinian might be the darlings of the Languedoc, but growers and winemakers are working hard to upgrade quality across the region. New appellations like La Clape and Pic ...

Stretching north from the Spanish border, around the arc of the Mediterranean Sea, southern France’s Languedoc-Roussillon is the largest winegrowing region in the world. Yet until the most recent few ...