Site of vineyards Between Corbières and Minervois, 12 miles from Carcassonne and 25 from the Mediterranean, the Ferrandière Estate is on the site of an ancient lagoon amidst the hills and mountains of Languedoc, cut off from the sea during the uplift that raised the Pyrenees... This brackish lake, with its unpleasant and unhealthy climate, was drained under Louis XIV, at the end of the 17th C, and steadily reclaimed and planted during the French Second Empire.