{"id":1051,"date":"2018-09-28T08:25:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T08:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2018-10-27T18:55:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T18:55:49","slug":"how-not-to-get-lost-in-the-languedoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Get Lost in the Languedoc"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Americans like our driving to be easy.\u00a0 We like highways and when we go wine tasting, we like there to be a few main roads that take us to all the wineries.\u00a0 In Napa Valley it\u2019s Route 29 and the Silverado Trail.\u00a0 In Sonoma County it\u2019s Route 101.\u00a0 In some parts of Europe they feel the same way.\u00a0 The main roads are the D2 in the M\u00e9doc and the Route des Grands Crus in Burgundy\u2019s C\u00f4te d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n

The Languedoc is much older than these regions, wilder, more spread out and frankly, poorer.\u00a0 Each appellation is somewhat self-contained covering a wide swath without much of a center point.\u00a0 The vineyards and wineries are often on small, single-lane roads quite removed from the major roads.\u00a0 These \u201cmajor roads\u201d are themselves two lanes wide and often twist through villages and turn around precipices.<\/p>\n

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The village of Minerve, for which the Minervois is named<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, you can use a GPS, as we did.\u00a0 We named the voice of our guide Fifi and in fairness she always seemed to know the shortest route.\u00a0 But the shortest is often (in fact, usually) not the best and we spent way too much time in a car that was narrower by two inches on either side than the paved road, following a tractor that was going ten miles an hour.\u00a0 Passing was out of the question.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re going to go wine tasting in the Languedoc \u2013 and we hope you do \u2013 here are a few tips for getting around.<\/p>\n