Book reviews 2016 – places: France

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Tam continues her series reviewing wine (and distilled wine) books published this year. For links to all her reviews, see this guide

The Wines of Faugères 
Rosemary George 
Infinite Ideas 
£30, $40 

Master of Wine in 1979, author of 12 books on wine, and writer of www.tastelanguedoc.blogspot.com, Rosemary George knows Languedoc-Roussillon intimately. Faugères, in the Hérault département, is just one of more than 20 AOPs in the Languedoc, and occupies less than 1% of the 192,286 ha (474,946 acres) of vineyard, so it's a remarkably tiny corner of the Languedoc to focus on. Her reason for doing...