"Welcome to the wine world according to RMJ. There's a subtle spotlight on Mediterranean wines and organic producers, but not exclusively, as well as wine travel. You'll find archive features on my wine words page, published in/on various magazines and websites including some only on WineWriting.com. Read on to thumb through the latest peppery content, which is now being published live on the WineWriting blog or my new Roussillon, Languedoc, Rhone & Provence blog. To help me keep it free to view, why not subscribe or advertise your winery or brand: it's reassuringly inexpensive actually..."

Latest! tasting/travel features & other wine words at a glance:
Chile: coming soon! De Martino; also: Nuevo Mundo, Syrah & rosé - Posh Chablis - Germany: Von Buhl - Australia: Rhone/Med reds & Grenache - M&S southern French reds - Languedoc/Roussillon: whites - Pinot Noir: Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand - Portugal: Quinta Falorca - Champers vs English fizz - Italy: Sicily updated, "south by northwest..." - Spain: Castilla León, Catalonia & Aragón, La Rioja Alta, Med-reds, Cava - Wines of Lebanon - Bordeaux: Ch de Pez & Pichon-Lalande - "natural" wine: Roussillon/Languedoc updates. More...
Loads more Languedoc: Minervois, Cabardès, Pézenas, Berlou & Roquebrun, Corbières & Boutenac, Limoux, Pic Saint Loup, La Clape, Picpoul de Pinet, Saint-Chinian, Faugères. More...
Previously on this site... Guest post: "how to find the best red wine for you..." More... Banyuls & Maury: "sweet seductive red Roussillon." More... Riesling Riesling and Riesling: "two dozen racy Germans." More...

Languedoc: "A logical step to give these 120-odd 'profiled' estates their very own fifteen minutes of Languedoc fame..." 1. Coteaux du Languedoc "zones" - 2. Corbières, Fitou - 3. Faugères, Saint-Chinian, Minervois - 4. Limoux, Cabardès, Malepère - 5. Vin de Pays Oc - 6. Sommières, Nîmes. Updated! Cabrol, Paul Mas, Caraguilhes, Jones, Mont Tauch, Gayda, Embres Castelmaure, Gérard Bertrand. New! Clos du Serre, Dom. Clovallon. More...

Sponsor: Languedoc Wines

Roussillon: "My slowly mushrooming guide to French Catalonia stretching from Maury to Rivesaltes, Perpignan to Collioure and Banyuls-sur-mer via Les Aspres (that's the bit in the middle)... with 100+ winery blurbs and 1000 wines..."
Updated! Gardiès, Le Soula, the Bee. New! Piquemal, Jean Pla. More...

Sponsor: Roussillon Wines

Winery snapshots: "Variety of flavoursome wineries featured as and when they come my way..."
1. Burgundy. 2. Bordeaux/southwest France. 3. South Africa/Lebanon/Austria. 4. Spain. 5. South/North America. 6. Australia/New Zealand. 7. Rhône/Provence. 8. Sicily. 9. Portugal.

Wines of the moment: "updated regularly or occasionally as fits the mood, not exactly a wine of the week or month but could be. Hopefully more spontaneous than that." I'm now posting "wotm" on my blogs, click here for 4 “fizzes & reds of the moment” from Cava and Aragón by Castell d'Olérdola & Esteban Martín. Previous ones can be found here.

Latest blog musings:
France: the Original Malbec
Wine courses in Belfast

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