Bouvet-Ladubay Cellars and Tasting Room ★ 4.6
Bouvet-Ladubay troglodyte cellars in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, founded 1851. Eight kilometres of tufa galleries, methode traditionnelle production hall and tasting room.
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.
Address: La Pepiere, 44690 Maisdon-sur-Sevre, France, Loire Valley
Bouvet-Ladubay troglodyte cellars in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, founded 1851. Eight kilometres of tufa galleries, methode traditionnelle production hall and tasting room.
Sparkling-wine house founded 1811 by Jean-Baptiste Ackerman, with three kilometres of tufa cellars and contemporary art alongside the riddling racks.
InterLoire tasting and information centre on the Saumur quayside, pouring a rotating selection of 50 wines from Saumur, Saumur-Champigny and Coteaux de Saumur.
Sancerre Wine Council interpretation centre on the medieval esplanade with a Kimmeridgian-flint-limestone exhibit and tasting bar pouring from 50 estates.
Tufa-cut cellars in Rochecorbon with library Vouvray vintages back to 1874, set against bin racks of historic bottlings in a vaulted tasting room.
Vouvray reference estate founded 1928, biodynamic since the 1980s. Tastings cover Le Haut-Lieu, Le Mont and Clos du Bourg in dry, demi-sec and moelleux styles.