Tagged with "Vouvray"

At last it feels as if Spring has arrived and in the vineyards, things are moving quickly.

Domaine d’Orfeuilles is an estate that has been in the Herivault family for more than 2 centuries.

We try to source our food and wine locally wherever possible and it can’t get much more local than this.

As the weeks go by, we have a clearer idea of the level of frost damage in individual parcels here in the Loire.

French wine labels can be tricky to understand. The combination of unfamiliar vocabulary and a different language can make it difficult.

The news filtered through quickly. It does in the wine world. Everyone knows everyone.

A relatively new wine to us this is a lovely Vouvray that you should look out for. Some of Domaine d’Orfeuille’s wines are available in the US.

The official go-ahead for harvest in the Vouvray appellation has been given but several growers requested permission to start a little earlier

We have a mobile wine bar that comes to the village every Wednesday evening. The wines are interesting and include wines from the Loire and elsewhere in France.

So, we’re off again here in the Loire. We have floraison or flowering in the vines!

Growers who choose not to use chemicals to control weeds underneath the vines ‘work’ the soil mechanically or occasionally use a horse.

Unprecedented temperatures in the Loire valley this past two weeks have had growers pruning in their shorts and dreading an early budburst. The older generation can’t remember a February when the temperatures have been this high for so long.