ith 300 000 hectares of vineyards the Languedoc (from French langue - language; occitanian oc for French Oui) is the largest closed wine region in the world. 40 percent of all French wines are produced with these local grapes. Within the designation Coteaux du Languedoc one finds also the oldest wine producing region of France.
	nder roman rule, here the wine had its first high-point. The Romans shipped wine in amphores from the province Gallia Narbonensis to Rome and exported it to Germania. With the fall of the Roman Empire the wine lost its importance.
	fter the construction of the harbour of Sète, the channel ‘Canal du Midi’ and numerous roads for the transportation of goods in the 17th century, the demand for wine increased once again.
	uring the industrialisation in the 19th century, workers newly discovered wines from the Languedoc and it took on an important role in theirs lives as sustenance and stimulant. The business was so successful, that the vineyards soon supplanted all other crops. The vintners of the Languedoc survived the phylloxera plague, economic crisis and world wars and fully concentrated on the overproduction of wines.
	ut in the 70’s this completely changed.
	“nstead of going down on one’s knee before the noble wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy, the vintners of the Midi rolled up their sleeves and pressed a super drop of their own” writes André Domine in his wine bible. Fruits and vegetables re-conquered the plains which could be well irrigated. The remaining sites received the “Appellation d’Origine Controlée” and thus achieved the highest level of French categories of vineyards.
	he biggest “quality island” of the Appellation is the Coteaux du Languedoc. It includes 8 400 hectares full of red vine sorts between Nimes and Narbonne. And in the midst of this, the vineyards of Les Trois Tomates are located ... >>>

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