My Life in Languedoc - a memoir in chapters. #2 The Wizard of Félines

For five years, 2009 to 2014, I split my time between England and France. The winter months were spent in England teaching wine studies at my own wine school as well as at a College in Birmingham. Summers were spent in France running wine tours. I always returned to Languedoc on April 1st. I liked the idea of arriving on April Fool’s Day, it was my way of sticking two fingers up at fate, saying OK I know how foolish I am but watch me go…

The second year I decided to live in a busier Minervois village, Caunes-Minervois. It’s a village with a long history going back at least a thousand years and from what I could gather it seemed to be the Minervois’s epicentre. The population was and still is made up of people from several countries including the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Estonia, Holland and of course Britain. Even so, we immigrants are far outnumbered by locals. Continue reading in Substack...