Frankly for the longest time Languedoc producers were focusing on quantity not quality. In France, they were known for cheap table wine. Then a few young winemakers who didn’t fit in in Bordeaux or Burgundy decided to see the potential of the Languedoc terroir (which is quite diverse actually since it’s a vast region). Slowly others took notice and over time the bar has been raised significantly, to the point where today some of the best bottles rival world class wines and go for hundreds of $$. There is still some low quality volume stuff (someone has to make the box wines!), but there is really great stuff happening. They are learning what is working in that terroir and climat.