Loire Wine

Sancerre rosé is a fraction of the appellation's output and rarely leaves France, which makes a good one worth seeking out.

Chinon is Cabernet Franc's home ground, and this one is built for drinking rather than keeping — a year in barrel and a year in bottle be...

Silex is the flint soil that gives Sancerre its smoky edge, and this cuvée is drawn only from the Reverdy family's old vines on the clay-...

Savennières is Chenin Blanc's most serious dry expression, and Le Moulin du Gué is one of the original plots this family farms.

Three generations at Thauvenay, working eleven hectares of south-east facing vines that average thirty-five years old across all three Sa...

Dry Vouvray is Chenin Blanc without a safety net — no oak, no sugar, just apple, stone and acidity.

Most Sancerre at this price is built on one soil type; this blends all three, so it has the freshness of Caillottes, the weight of Terres...

Demi-Sec Vouvray is the most misunderstood wine in the Loire: off-dry rather than sweet, and one of the few whites that can take chilli o...

Pouilly-Fumé sits on the right bank opposite Sancerre and gives Sauvignon Blanc a gunflint smokiness you will not find across the river.

Touraine Sauvignon does what Sancerre does a few miles upriver, with the same flinty clay under the vines.

Pouilly-Fumé sits across the river from Sancerre on much the same flint, and Tracy has been in one family since 1586.

Bué is one of Sancerre's best communes, and this estate holds a slice of Garennes and a full hectare of Chêne Marchand - vineyards that c...

Most Sancerre never sees a barrel.

Chenin Blanc at its most direct — no oak, no sugar, just apple, stone fruit and salt.

Silex is the flint soil that gives Sancerre its smoky edge, and Laloue bottle it on its own from a single three-hectare parcel of forty-y...

The Cherrier family have farmed here since 1848, and this is Sancerre in its riper register - full and textured rather than lean, with th...