Calmel & Joseph - classy wines from Languedoc Roussillon

The Languedoc-Roussillon still has a bit of a name for being cheap - it's France's most important wine region in terms of quantity, with an extraordinary 299,000 hectares under vine (that's three times the size of Bordeaux, also not exactly small), but you have to hunt for the quality.

There are increasing numbers of overperforming AOP regions - some of …