The Tasting Room Carcassonne ★ 4.4
Independent tasting bar in Carcassonne's Bastide Saint-Louis, sampling regional Occitanie wines spanning Corbieres, Minervois, Cabardes, Limoux and Malepere with sommelier-led flights.
Maison Guinot tasting cellar inside the 14th-century Abbaye Saint-Hilaire, the birthplace of methode traditionnelle sparkling wine in 1531, with guided tours and Blanquette de Limoux tastings.
Address: Place de l'Eglise, 11250 Saint-Hilaire, France, Languedoc
Independent tasting bar in Carcassonne's Bastide Saint-Louis, sampling regional Occitanie wines spanning Corbieres, Minervois, Cabardes, Limoux and Malepere with sommelier-led flights.
Orliac family tasting room at the foot of the Hortus cliffs in the Pic Saint-Loup appellation, overlooking the vats and vineyard with cellar-door tastings of La Bergerie and Grande Cuvee.
Official Languedoc AOC tasting house at Mas de Saporta in Lattes, with 450+ wine references, free guided tastings of regional AOPs, an on-site shop and the Ecole des Vins du Languedoc.
Saint-Chinian appellation tasting house in an 18th-century building, presenting 250+ AOC Saint-Chinian wines alongside Muscats de Saint-Jean de Minervois and Cartagenes.
Corbieres consortium tasting house at the Chateau in Boutenac, pouring AOP Corbieres and the communal AOP Corbieres-Boutenac built around old-vine Carignan from the Pinada massif.
Minervois appellation tasting house on the Canal du Midi at Homps, with around 200 references covering AOP Minervois plus the Minervois-La Liviniere cru and rotating winegrower tasting evenings.