LOIRE VALLEY INFO
Loire Valley is inscribed on the World Heritage of UNESCO.
“Brief Description
The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), and cultivated lands formed by many centuries of interaction between their population and the physical environment, primarily the river Loire itself. (UNESCO)”
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Loire Valley is the third biggest french region of wine production, and the second for the production of sparkling wines.
63 AOC (”Appellations of Controled Origine”), from which 49 for Anjou, Saumur, Touraine together.
The region offers a great diversity :
- Whites : dry, and semi-sweet
- Dessert wines : from easy to drink to wonderfully complex
- Rosés : dry, and semi-sweet
- Reds : from easy to drink to full-bodied and complex
- Sparklings : dry and semi-dry whites ; dry rosés ; semi-sweet reds
WINE AREAS (represented by Loire Links)
* MUSCADET * SAUMUR-CHAMPIGNY * ANJOU * CHINON
* SANCERRE *MENETOU-SALON * SAINT-POURCAIN
APPELLATIONS (represented by Loire Links)
*** AOC ***
- Muscadet Sèvres & Maine - Muscadet Gorgeois - Muscadet Granite de Clisson
- Saumur Champigny red - Anjou red - Anjou-Villages - Anjou white - Rosé de Loire
- Rosé d’Anjou - Rosé Cabernet d’Anjou - Crémant de Loire - Coteaux du Layon - Bonnezeaux
- Chinon red - Sancerre red - Sancerre white - Sancerre rosé
- Menetou Salon red - Menetou Salon white
*** VDQS ***
- Saint Pourçain red - Saint Pourçain white
