6/13/2023 0 Comments Loire valley wine maps![]() The main grape varieties are: Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Sauvignon Blanc, Gamay, Malbec The main grape varieties are: Chenin Blanc (sparkling and still), Cabernet Franc The main grape varieties are: Chenin Blanc (sweet and dry), Cabernet Franc (red and rosé) The main grape varieties are: Melon de Bourgogne (Muscadet) Running West to East the five regions are: The Loire is the largest river in France and dissects the country from its source near St-Etienne, not so far from the Mediterranean all the way up towards Paris before heading West at Orleans to Nantes on the West Atlantic coast, over 1000 kilometres away.Īlthough technically some of the wine produced down in the Ardèche could be considered Loire Valley wines, the five main wine-producing regions of the Loire actually start from Bourges right in the geographical heart of France through to the Atlantic. The Muscadet produced in Pays Nantais, for example, seems to have very little to do with the Gamay in Chateaumeillant over 400 kilometres away, Of all the wine regions in France the Loire Valley is probably the most diverse, disparate, hardest to define and generalise about. In order to read a wine map accurately, one must pay attention to the details and read through the map index well in order to scrape the right information.Aside from the reality of French politics one of the key reasons that Central-Loire has a different identity to the rest of the Loire Valley is that a proportion of winemakers there see themselves as more affiliated to Burgundy than the Loire.
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