AOC Languedoc Saint-Georges-d’Orques

Production centres

Saint-Georges-d’Orques, Murviel-les-Montpellier, Juvignac, Lavérune, Pignan..

Soil

Mostly pebble covered terraces.

This terroir was much written about in the Middle Ages. In 1804, US President Thomas Jefferson, instructed his Finance Secretary to lower import duty on St Georges wine; encouraging people to drink quality wine, he explained, was the best way to combat alcoholism.