Loire - 5 / 8

The Closiers cuvée from Domaine des Closiers is fresh and elegant in this successful 2021 vintage: a gourmet and supple Loire wine, easy to marry, to drink over 5 to 7 years.

Les Tuffeaux du Domaine François Chidaine is a great Loire demi-sec. This well-balanced organic wine features notes of white and yellow fruits. The residual sugar gives the wine roundness without weighing it down. Try it with foie gras or apricot tagine! Guide des meilleurs vin de France 2023 : 91/100

The cuvée Les Tonnes Barils du domaine Bonnigal-Bodet is a superb chenin. An organic white wine that develops on notes of ripe fruit,a beautiful aromatic complexity from the ageing and an elegant bitterness on the finish.

Fondis du Clos des Quarterons is an exceptional Saint-Nicolas de Bourgueil. Intense, powerful and racy, it combines finesse and complexity, power and greed in this lovely 2021 vintage. A high-flying cuvée.

This Pouilly-Fumé Les Champs des Chaumes develops expressive white fruit and citrus notes on the nose. On the palate, this organic wine is balanced, endowed with lovely freshness and fruit (white peaches, apricots); nice mineral finish!

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2025: 92/100

The Saponaire du domaine Ogereau has a nose of ripe white fruits and floral notes. On the palate, this Savennières has a fine, airy texture thanks to the sandy terroirs.

Source blanc des Jardins de Fleury is a very successful natural chenin: straightforward, gourmand, slightly spicy this natural wine is a fine food wine

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La Diablesse is the most virile and animal of all the Château de Coulaine cuvées. A few years in the cellar will do him a world of good!

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2025 : 93/100

La Part des Anges du domaine de la Noblaie is a gourmet white Chinon. Aged in casks, this organic wine features woody, exotic fruit and citrus notes. Superb length. A botrytized but dry Chenin, aged in 5 barrels directly after pressing. Superb!

The Peu Morier from domain Vincent Careme has a nose of great freshness. It features notes of dried fruit, apples and pears. The palate is full-bodied, rich and smooth, with mineral notes on the finish. A great success!

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2024: 93/100

From poor, south-facing soils, Haut de la Butte develops beautiful notes of blackcurrant and redcurrant, with a sensation of freshness on the palate, combined with a very fine tannic structure. Decant for 2 hours.

Triple Zéro du Domaine de la Taille aux Loups is the benchmark bubbly on Montlouis. This grand chenin is not dosed. The result is an airy, complex bubble that needs a few years to fully reveal itself. Worthy of a very good champagne. Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2017 : 15/20

Clef de sol blanc de la Grange Tiphaine is a superb Montlouis. This organic Chenin has great cellaring potential. This white wine is mineral and slender: it develops notes of citrus, yellow fruit and flint. A superb gastronomic wine with good length.

The cuvée Les Beauvoirs from domaine Bonnigal-Bodet has a slender balance, with notes of yellow fruit and lightly toasted touches, a soft, long texture, resting on fine bitters on the finish.

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2024: 91/100

Effusion 2020 is a magnificent whiteAanjou from Domaine P Baudouin, mineral, chiselled and elegant, a magnificent white!

La cuvée Rémus du Domaine de la Taille aux Loups possesses a lovely nose of white-fleshed fruit (peach, apricot) and flowers (acacia). The palate is taut, lively and elegant. Yellow fruits such as mirabelle plum are present, with a lovely greediness. Long finish. Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2022 : 90/100

Triple Zéro rosé from domaine de la Taille aux Loups

is a 100% Cabernet Franc non-dosed natural sparkling wine. This Triple Zéro cuvée takes its name from zero chaptalization, zero liqueur de tirage and zero liqueur d'expédition. The nose develops fruity notes of wild strawberry and raspberry. The palate is greedy, with a fresh finish. A fine, racy cuvée.

A superb white Chinon, the Coteaux de Sonnay du domaine Gasnier. The wine is rich, gourmand, developing on notes of yellow fruit, apricot. Long-lasting and delicious!

This Jasnières bio du domaine de la Roche Bleue has a clear, limpid color. The nose is ripe, developing on notes of candied pear, mineral. Superb length!

Magnificent Vin de France (the Vouvray appellation has been withdrawn because it is vinified in the commune of Montlouis, as usual, and not Vouvray) than this cuvée les argiles from domaine François Chidaine. Highly perfumed, this cuvée features citrus and white fruit notes. we appreciate the balance and tension present in the wine. Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2017: 18/20 (mill 2014).

The Cuvée Breteche from Domaine de la Chevalerie is an organic mealtime wine, round and fruity, at home with fish, poultry or red meat. It develops notes of red fruit, followed by undergrowth aromas with age. We appreciate its silky texture and balance!

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2020 : 17/20

The Clef de sol rouge du domaine de la Grange Tiphaine cuvée is a superb Touraine organic wine. This vin bio of great refinement develops on elegant, floral aromas with notes of ripe red fruits and spices. The palate is silky, with soft tannins. Fresh finish.

The Clef de sol rouge du domaine de la Grange Tiphaine is a superb organic Touraine wine. This highly refined wine develops elegant, floral aromas with notes of ripe red fruits and spices. The palate is silky and elegant, with soft tannins. Fresh finish.

The Moynerie du domaine Michel Redde is a superb Pouilly-Fumé: it declines on mineral and saline notes. A magnificent Sauvignon with good ageing potential.

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2025: 89/100