The Languedoc-Roussillon region of France
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Languedoc-Roussillon covers an area of 27,376 km² and contains the departments Aude, Gard, Hérault, Lozère and Pyrénées-Orientales.
It is the home of French plonk, much of which was traded through Montpellier. Indeed Montpellier has a kind of imperial splendour, symbolised by an aqueduct which was built by the town to supply it with water from the hills. This and the magnificent town itself were financed by the wine trade, whose merchants battened upon the Languedoc vignerons.
Nowaday some of the vignerons are Australian, and methods of vinifcation improved enormously, new wines establised (eg strong Australian type chardonnays) and new AOC granted (Fitou, etc.).
Languedoc-Roussillon contains the following departements (the chief town of each department - the prefecture) is shown in brackets:-
- Aude (Carcassonne)
- Gard (Nimes)
- Herault (Montpellier)
- Lozere (Mende)
- Pyrenees-Orientales (Perpignan)