The best Languedoc wines are boldly flavored and spicy, with great Mediterranean character.
Producers have veered from wines that express a singular Mediterranean character fragrant of earthy wild herbs, to wines that are powerful, fruit-driven and tailored to appeal to a modern global market.
London, although still ravaged by wartime bombing, fascinated him, but he remained captivated by Lisbon, "a Latin city of Mediterranean character... which made me look introspectively into a more private, metaphysical world dominated by light, shadows and silences.
In the port Woodsworth found ample evidence of the Mediterranean character yet its few remaining multicultural residents – a Greco-Alexandrian architect, a Syrian Christian princess, a French archaeologist – drifted towards oblivion like so many antiquities.
Instead, the proposed building had "a strongly Mediterranean character", inspired by medieval buildings in that region.
These are works of a Mediterranean character and are inspired by Busoni's Elegy No. 2, All'Italia, and the Spanish music of Isaac Albéniz, Debussy, Enrique Granados and Liszt.
