Stepping into the dimly-lit, barrel-studded wine cave at the Chateau Gaudrelle, an estate just outside the city of Tours, the ...

The Vintage Wine Shoppe (432 Cahaba Park Circle off Hwy. 280, phone 205-980-9995) held a tasting of Loire Valley wines and will offer the sale prices through Saturday, May 2 (or until the wine in ...

But on a wine tasting trip to the Loire Valley last April, I was blown away by the earthy, robust red wines from Saumur Champigny, a sublime subregion in France’s Loire Valley which produces ...

Last Thursday afternoon, Two Chefs Restaurant hosted a wine tasting of Sauvignon Blancs from the Loire Valley in France. Loire Valley Wines are produced over a wide swath of the country, and so of ...

The wine We spent a lot of time tasting wines, focusing on cabernet franc, the most widely planted grape in the Loire, from which many of the local varieties are derived. In Chinon, for example ...

Tasting Sauvignon Blanc filled Sancerre and Pouilly Fume AOC, each sitting on opposite sides of the Loire River just outside the city of Orleans, the differences in the two wines are apparent ...

I experienced the latter — literally — in one of the strangest wine tastings I have ever enjoyed. It happened on a cold, damp day late in March last year, near Bourgueil, a small wine town in ...

During a wine tasting trip to the Loire Valley this past April, I tasted dozens of outstanding Muscadet wines. It was fascinating to discover the wide variety of Muscadet wines. And best of all ...