Our Complete Guide to the Loire Valley
By Maggie Scudder
Peruse this guide with a delicious glass of wine. And keep an eye out, this guide will be updated with more and more as we continue our journey through the...
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Guide to the Lower Loire: Muscadet and the Pays Nantais
By Joshua Cohen
The Lower Loire is the last wine region the Loire River passes through on its way to the Atlantic ocean. Home to Muscadet -- one of the most perfect dry...
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Guide to Anjou-Saumur
By Joshua Cohen
This is the last stop before we hit the Atlantic region of the Pays Nantais, and Anjou-Saumur is where you can really feel things start to shift.
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Guide to the Touraine
By Joshua Cohen
If France is the world’s most diverse wine country and the Loire is France’s most diverse wine region, the Touraine is the Loire Valley’s most diverse subregion.
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Introduction to the Loire Valley
By Web Ops
All this diversity makes the Loire France’s most diverse region and contributes to making it France’s most exciting region. But it has also hidden the Loire’s essential unity from many...
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Top 5 Reasons to Fall in Love with Loire Valley Wines
By Joshua Cohen
The wines of the Loire Valley are some of the greatest wines in the world. And yet they don’t have the high profile of peer regions, like Burgundy and Bordeaux. And that’s...
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Ultimate Guide to the Terroir of Sancerre, Part One
By Maggie Scudder
Over the last several decades, the name Sancerre has become synonymous with premium dry white wine, making it the safe choice for consumers with no other requirements. As such, it's become...
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Wine Wanderings: Visit to Joguet
By Jeff Patten
Charles Joguet is the domaine that put Chinon on the map. Joguet liked Burgundy, especially how each itty bitty plot of land seemed to make distinct wine from its specific terroir. ...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3 (Continued) (Again)
By Jeff Patten
It was a great appointment with Philippe Foreau – 90 minutes longer than he had slotted us in for – and so we were late to an embarrassing degree for...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3 (Continued)
By Jeff Patten
After Huet we just had time to squeeze in lunch at la Geule Noire, a nice farm-to-table in a cave carved out of tuffeau stone where the chef attempts to...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 3
By Jeff Patten
Day 3 would turn out to be our longest day, and the five hours of sleep after numerous bottles of wine was not ideal preparation. Still, we managed to pile...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 2 (Continued)
By Jeff Patten
We drove straight from Marc Deschamp’s domaine in Pouilly-sur-Loire to Domaine Thomas Labaille in Chavignol. Chavignol is in the Sancerre appellation, on a hill across the valley to the west...
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Wine Wanderings: Loire Valley Day 1
By Jeff Patten
(Josh and Jeff spent a few days in the Loire Valley checking out wine this September. This is the first of a series of posts telling the story.) The drive...
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