For the last six years, Sud de France, the organisation that champions food, wine and tourism in Languedoc and Roussillon, has held a Top 100 wine competition to find the best wines of the two regions.
This year I took part in the judging of 634 wines from 210 producers – a very small proportion, I might add, of the total number of producers (there are over 21,000 wine estates) and wines that come from the two regions. The tasting was blind and chaired by Tim Atkin MW. 18 judges, mostly UK wine writers and wine buyers, got into teams...