Jeff Grier of the esteemed South African wine producer Villiera has long had a close relationship with the far south west corner of France, notably via Jean Louis Denois, who set up and then sold Domaine de l’Aigle there and now makes some first class wines under his own name, still near Limoux. Jeff recently took the plunge and bought a domaine in the Agly valley, that extremely promising area that was once called Coteaux des Fenouillèdes, is occasionally known as the Maury district but whose wines now officially have to be sold as mere Vins de Pays des Côtes...
10 Feb 2006