Tagged with "Loire valley wines"

As it’s been warm enough to eat outside this week we enjoyed a simple dinner of home made burgers, roasted garlicky plum tomatoes and a fresh green salad. L’Envolée from Gérald Vallée was our wine of choice.

There is a lot you can gather from just looking at a wine. Tip the glass at an angle of 45°C preferably against a white background and take a look. What can you see?

Many of you will have tasted Peter Hahn’s lovely Vouvrays while you have been with us at le tasting room. I’m happy to say that he has launched an on-line facility and his wines are now available on-line in Europe and France for delivery. 

Sabrer une bouteille de Crémant. To open a bottle of Crémant with a sabre or sword. Lots of fun for special celebrations.

Ok, so you’re staying in Angers in the Loire and you love wine and you think ‘right, it’s Sunday tomorrow, let’s go wine tasting’.

An article this morning that I reposted made me think that I would write a few words of my own about the growing number of ‘natural’ sparkling wines on the market today

2016 turned out to be a very tricky year for them with miniscule yeilds of around 6hl/ha.

There are different ways to prune vines. Here in the Loire in Anjou we see a lot of Single Guyot and Double Guyot pruning, a cane replacement system.

Bâttonage is the French word for stirring the ‘lees’

A few things that you might not know about the Loire valley.

Watched a very interesting French documentary this morning that goes into the detail behind Crémant versus Champagne.

La Coulée de Serrant quits Interloire. What does that mean?