Chateau Belmont Tours ★ 4.6
Five-star Tours hotel in a 19th-century neoclassical mansion above the Loire with Michelin-starred restaurant and a Loire-spanning cellar deep on Vouvray, Montlouis, Chinon and Sancerre.
The list: Cellar of 700 references; sommelier-led tasting menu pairings; Vouvray and Sancerre vertical tasting evenings; Tours-base for day excursions to all four Loire wine sub-regions