"Larging it in the Languedoc" with Jeanjean and Mas La Chevalière (click there to read full feature).
Vignobles Jeanjean (Domaine de Fenouillet, Mas de Lunès, Devois des Agneaux d'Aumélas, Domaine Le Pive, Mas Neuf) and Laroche/Mas La Chevalière.
"Large" in the traditional rather than popular sense but, hey, it amuses me trying to think up an in-your-face title. It occurred to me one day that my focus in the Languedoc has perhaps been a bit biased towards small, and sometimes rather "chi-chi" or "trendy" estates, while partly neglecting the big boys (although not entirely e.g. GBertrand, JCMas, Mont Tauch). There's been a noticeable amount of acquisition stuff going on chez Jeanjean over the past few years; the latest major development being the merger with Michel Laroche's already mini-empire (Chablis, Punto Alto in Chile, L'Avenir in South Africa and Mas La Chevalière in the Languedoc) last year and creation of a "new" wine group, maybe France's largest of its kind, called Advini (I'll say nothing about Romans, although the new slogan "des vignobles et des hommes" sounds a tad macho even if best translated as "people" rather than "men": that's the French language for you!). So, their winery line-up now includes Ogier (Chateauneuf-du-Pape), Cazes (Roussillon), Rigal (Cahors), Gassier (Provence) and A. Moueix (St-Emilion) in addition to the ones mentioned above...
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