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Douzens – centre of collaboration

Adrian Moréno of Dom Régazel

There's a tiny village in Corbières where wine producers are unusual in their spirit of co-operation and devotion to organics. Above, Adrian Moréno of Domaine Régazel in one of his vineyards.

A week on Saturday, I’ll explain just why the four producers profiled below are so unusual. For the moment, suffice it to say that they all operate and co-operate in a very small village at the northern limit of the Corbières (see this map of the western Languedoc just west of Lézignan-Corbières). 

The 600-m (1,970-ft) peak of the Montagne d’Alaric that marks the northern end of the massif that...