Roussillon

Roussillon

Roussillon lies at the southernmost tip of France, close to the Spanish border, spread across the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees. In the Agly valley, in the shadow of Canigou, old Grenache and Carignan vines of many decades' standing take root on lean slopes of black schist and limestone.

More than 300 days of sunshine a year and the dry Tramontane wind produce wines that are concentrated yet saline, with a real tension running through them.

Once known for its fortified sweet wines, this is now the region where France's most exciting dry wines are being made, and where its most passionate growers have chosen to settle.

Come here not for famous labels but for wines that reflect, without embellishment, the sheer force of the land.