Chateau de Villeneuve Tasting Room ★ 4.7
Jean-Pierre Chevallier's biodynamic Saumur-Champigny estate, tastings in the 18th-century chateau on Le Grand Clos. Reference Cabernet Franc producer.
Family-owned Chinon house founded 1921 with cellars cut into the cliff beneath the medieval fortress, pouring the Clos de l'Echo Cabernet Franc and full range.
Address: 12 rue Diderot, 37500 Chinon, France, Loire Valley
Jean-Pierre Chevallier's biodynamic Saumur-Champigny estate, tastings in the 18th-century chateau on Le Grand Clos. Reference Cabernet Franc producer.
Cremant de Loire specialist owned by Champagne Bollinger since 1973. Tufa galleries, riddling and disgorgement halls finish with a Quadrille and Cremant range tasting.
Reference Sancerre estate run by Florent and Clement Pinard in Bue, focused on single-parcel Chene Marchand and Nuance Sauvignon Blanc cuvees.
Federation des Vins de Nantes centre overlooking the Sevre-et-Maine vineyards, pouring from 40+ Muscadet estates plus Coteaux d'Ancenis and Gros Plant.
Marc Olivier and Remi Branger's Muscadet estate. Tasting flights compare the Clos des Briords, Chateau Thebaud and Clisson cru cuvees aged 18+ months on lees.
Bouvet-Ladubay troglodyte cellars in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, founded 1851. Eight kilometres of tufa galleries, methode traditionnelle production hall and tasting room.