{"title":"Loire Wine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Loire Valley follows France's longest river from the Atlantic coast to the centre of the country, and its wines are defined by freshness. Sauvignon Blanc reaches crisp, flinty heights in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé; Chenin Blanc shines in Vouvray and Savennières, from bone dry to lusciously sweet; Cabernet Franc from Chinon gives light, fragrant reds. Food-friendly, lower in alcohol and excellent value, Loire wines suit goat's cheese, seafood and summer dishes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"2025-sancerre-domaine-de-la-rossignole","title":"Sancerre, Domaine de la Rossignole 2025","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRipe apricot and pineapple lead, with floral notes behind them and a bergamot-lemon lift on the finish. The attack is fresh and the palate full and rich, with a distinct mineral edge and enough bright acidity to carry the weight. Long and intense. Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Cherrier family have held this Sancerre estate since 1848, and the domaine takes its name from one of their ancestral parcels. François and Jean-Marie Cherrier have run it since 1994 on a principle of minimal intervention in vineyard and cellar, working vines in the heart of the appellation across its three classic soils - clayey-siliceous, silex and clayey-chalk - with ploughing, hoeing and short pruning, and no fertilisers for many years. The grapes were pressed within two hours of picking to keep the freshness, the must settled for 24 hours and racked, then fermented in stainless steel at 19-20°C and matured on its fine lees for texture before cold stabilisation, filtration and bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8-10°C. It suits grilled sea bass, dressed crab, goat's cheese and a herb-dressed green salad. Drink over the next three to five years; no decanting needed. Sealed with a technical cork. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine de la Rossignole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476398870911,"sku":"HNW-50770251","price":26.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/50770251.jpg?v=1789921602"},{"product_id":"2023-sancerre-cuvee-silex-domaine-serge-laloue","title":"Sancerre, Cuvée Silex, Domaine Serge Laloue 2023","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmoky graphite and oyster shell on the nose, lifted by zesty orange peel and Mirabelle plum. The palate is dry, fresh and supple, with concentrated citrus fruit carried on high acidity to a bright, saline finish. Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerge Laloue established the domaine at Thauvenay, five kilometres south of Sancerre, in the 1960s; Christine and her brother Franck have run it since the 1990s, and Franck's son Clément joined after his viticulture studies. The Silex cuvée comes from a three-hectare estate vineyard of forty-year-old vines on flinty clay facing south-east, ploughed rather than sprayed with herbicide and HVE certified; conversion to organic began in 2019 and 2023 is the first certified organic vintage. The grapes were gently pressed and fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel, then held ten months on fine lees with stirring, deliberately without oak so the flint of the soil comes through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8–10°C. It suits oysters, grilled sea bass, fresh goat's cheese and a salad of asparagus and herbs. 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Chenin Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomaine des Forges has been in the same family for five generations, run today by Stéphane Branchereau and his wife Séverine, with his father Claude still to be found in the cellar. Its 50 hectares of HVE-certified vines lie around St Aubin de Luigné in the southern Loire, where schist and carboniferous soils retain heat and push ripening in a cool northern climate; 30 hectares are planted to Chenin Blanc. The harvest is picked in three passes so only the ripest fruit is taken, then pressed and settled parcel by parcel, fermented slowly with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel and matured on fine lees before a cross-flow filtration that keeps sulphur levels low.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8–10°C. It suits grilled sea bass, goat's cheese salad, moules marinière and roast chicken with herbs. 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Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Millet family has made wine at Bué in Sancerre for more than five generations, and the domaine is now run by Gérard and Isabelle with their son Steve. Of its 24 hectares, 19 lie in the Sancerre appellation and five in Menetou-Salon; the estate gained HVE Level 3 certification in 2020 and has invested in heat exchange equipment to keep grapes and must cold. This cuvée comes from a single plot called Désert du Petit Bannon in the commune of Vinon, where thirty-five-year-old vines grow on clay-siliceous soil full of flinty pebbles that hold the day's heat and release it at night. The juice was cold settled for four days, fermented with natural yeasts in 400-litre French oak barrels already used for five or six wines, matured twelve months in the same barrels and then six months in stainless steel before release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10–12°C. Good with roast chicken, seared scallops, smoked haddock and a mature goat's cheese. Drink over the next five years; a few minutes in the glass serves it better than a decanter. 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Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThierry Merlin-Cherrier spent five decades building this 14-hectare family estate around the commune of Bué in Sancerre, including a slice of the revered Garennes plot and a hectare in the renowned Chêne Marchand vineyard. It is planted mainly to Sauvignon Blanc with two hectares of Pinot Noir, has been farmed sustainably for more than thirty years and is HVE certified, with biodiversity encouraged and each plot cultivated to suit its own terroir. In 2022 Thierry handed the reins to his youngest daughter Agathe, who is slowly adding her own signature under his guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8-10°C. Good with oysters, grilled trout, goat's cheese and a simple green salad. Drink over the next three to five years; no decanting needed. 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Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Stutt family came to France from Scotland in the fifteenth century to support the future King Charles VII during the Hundred Years War, and inherited Château de Tracy by marriage in 1586; the estate is still family owned and is led today by the youngest daughter, Juliette d'Assay. The vineyard lies at Tracy-sur-Loire on slopes overlooking the river, twenty-nine-year-old vines facing south-west on clayey flint over Kimmeridgian limestone, the first giving the wine its assertive character and the second its richness. It is certified organic and holds the HVE certification, with grass ploughing, leaf thinning and butterfly lures in place of chemical treatments, and the grapes are hand harvested in several passes. Each press fraction was vinified separately in a long, slow, low-temperature fermentation in stainless steel with minimal intervention, then held on fine lees until the following spring, when the vats were blended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8–10°C. It works with oysters, grilled sole, fresh goat's cheese and a salad of asparagus and peas. Drink over the next three to five years; no decanting required. Sealed with a DIAM closure. 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They moved to Touraine in 1996, drawn there by Loire Sauvignon Blanc, and work a mosaic of plots at the heart of the Loire Valley: the sandy clays of the Sologne plateau, which stay cool and hold water through a hot summer, and the flinty clays of the Cher valley that give the wine its mineral edge. Patrice Merceron, winemaker and agricultural engineer, joined in 2014. The grapes were given a twelve-hour skin maceration and pressed gently in a pneumatic press, fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel over seven to fifteen days, then held a minimum of six months on fine lees for volume and texture before bottling in the spring after the harvest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8–10°C. Good with goat's cheese, grilled prawns, asparagus and smoked salmon. Drink over the next three to five years; no decanting needed. Sealed under technical cork. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. de Villebois","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476405621119,"sku":"HNW-5084424A","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/5084424A.jpg?v=1789921667"},{"product_id":"2025-pouilly-fume-j-de-villebois","title":"Pouilly-Fumé, J. de Villebois 2025","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntense ripe exotic fruit on the nose, with the smoky, struck-flint note the appellation takes its name from. The palate is balanced and textured, fresh and mineral, finishing on tropical fruit. Aromatic and persistent. Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. de Villebois is the venture of Joost and Miguela de Willebois, descendants of an old French family established in the Netherlands since the nineteenth century, where the V became a W. Enchanted by Loire Sauvignon Blanc, they settled in Touraine in 1996 and now work a range of terroirs across Loire Valley appellations; Patrice Merceron, winemaker and agricultural engineer, joined in 2014. The Pouilly-Fumé vineyard looks out over the river from the right bank, catching intense light and mild temperatures, and is farmed without synthetic products to protect the microbiology of the soils, with yields held down by the mixed ages and origins of the plantings. The grapes were gently pressed in a pneumatic press straight after picking to limit skin contact, fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel over seven to fifteen days, then held on fine lees in tank for at least six months for volume and texture, and bottled the following spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8-10°C. It goes with grilled sea bass, smoked salmon, goat's cheese and a lightly dressed green salad. 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Chenin Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDomaine de la Rouletière sits on some of the most sought-after slopes in Vouvray, on the right bank of the Loire. Founded in 1914 and owned by the Gilet family, winegrowers for five generations, it is farmed today by Jean-Marc Gilet, whose 27 hectares are certified organic by Ecocert and worked without synthetic or chemical preparations. Les Argiles is a single vineyard on Turonian limestone hillsides covered in perruche, the flinty clay that lends the wine its elegance; beneath the estate the family has carved an 800-square-metre two-storey cellar out of freestone over many generations. Each plot was vinified separately, the fruit picked at optimum ripeness and sorted on the table, then fermented at low temperature in stainless steel and left unoaked to keep the fruit pure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8–10°C. It handles Thai green curry, roast pork with apple, a ripe blue cheese and coarse country pâté. Drink over the next five to ten years; no decanting needed. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine de la Rouletière","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476406636927,"sku":"HNW-5095125A","price":21.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/5095125A.jpg?v=1789921695"},{"product_id":"2024-sancerre-j-de-villebois","title":"Sancerre, J. de Villebois 2024","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntense herbaceous aromas with gooseberry and citrus behind them. The palate is textured and richly flavoured for Sancerre, but a vibrant, refreshing crispness keeps it balanced and the finish clean. Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. de Villebois is the venture of Joost and Miguela de Willebois, descendants of an old French family established in the Netherlands since the nineteenth century, where the V became a W. Enchanted by Loire Sauvignon Blanc, they settled in Touraine in 1996 and now work a range of terroirs across Loire Valley appellations; Patrice Merceron, winemaker and agricultural engineer, joined in 2014. The fruit for this cuvée comes from hillside plots around the hilltop town of Sancerre, planted across the appellation's three main soils: Les Caillottes, stony coarse Kimmeridgian limestone over clay, which gives aromatic structure and freshness; Les Terres Blanches, Kimmeridgian marl rich in fossilised shellfish that turns white as it dries, which gives complexity and opulence; and the flinty Silex soils, which give minerality. The grapes were gently pressed in a pneumatic press straight after picking to limit skin contact, fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel over seven to fifteen days, then held on fine lees in tank for at least six months for volume and texture, and bottled the following spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8-10°C. Try it with oysters, grilled trout, goat's cheese and an asparagus salad. Drink over the next three to five years; no decanting needed. Sealed with a technical cork. 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Founded in 1914 and owned by the Gilet family, winegrowers for five generations, it is farmed today by Jean-Marc Gilet across 27 hectares certified organic by Ecocert; beneath the estate the family has carved an 800-square-metre two-storey cellar out of freestone over many generations. Les Calcaires is a single vineyard on Turonian limestone hillsides covered in perruche, a flinty clay that lends elegance, worked without synthetic or chemical preparations. The grapes were harvested at optimum ripeness and carefully sorted, then vinified plot by plot to keep the nuances of the terroir, fermenting at low temperature in stainless steel to hold on to the freshness and purity of the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8–10°C. It suits roast chicken, grilled sole, pork rillettes and an aged goat's cheese. Drink over the next five to ten years; no decanting needed. 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Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerge Laloue founded this domaine in the 1960s at Thauvenay, five kilometres south of Sancerre; Christine and her brother Franck took over their father's work in the 1990s, and Franck's son Clément has recently joined after finishing his viticulture studies. The estate covers twenty hectares, and this wine comes from eleven hectares of south-east facing vines averaging thirty to thirty-five years old, across three soils: calcareous clay, cool and high in limestone, for finesse and elegance; siliceous clay with a flinty component for mineral notes; and sandy clay for complexity. The vineyard is ploughed rather than treated with herbicides, with cover crops between the rows and sexual confusion used against predators, and the estate is HVE certified. The grapes were carefully selected and gently pressed, fermented with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel, then matured on the lees for texture and subtle complexity; the cuvée sees no oak at all, to keep the fruit pure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8-10°C. Good with oysters, grilled trout, goat's cheese and a spring vegetable salad. Drink over the next three to five years; no decanting needed. Sealed with a DIAM cork. 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The estate holds three plots in Savennières, and this wine comes from 1.5 hectares in the cru of Le Moulin du Gué, on the schist and carboniferous soils that mark the finest parcels of the appellation; the schist retains heat and pushes ripening in a cool northern climate, and yields run at 35 hl\/ha. The rows are grassed, green-harvested and summer-thinned to expose the fruit, and the harvest is picked in three passes so only the ripest grapes are taken. Each parcel was pressed and settled separately, fermented slowly with selected yeasts in barrel with a partial malolactic conversion to round the palate, and matured on fine lees in 400-litre barrels before a cross-flow filtration that keeps sulphur levels low.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 10–12°C. Good with roast chicken, turbot in a butter sauce, slow-cooked pork belly and a mature Comté. Drink over the next five to ten years; half an hour in a decanter opens it up. 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Sauvignon Blanc 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Marie Reverdy works with his sons Guillaume and Baptiste, from a family of winemakers going back several generations, on vineyards around the village of Verdigny within sight of the Sancerre hill. Silex is drawn from a selection of their old vines on the clay-flint hillsides of Ménétréol-sous-Sancerre and Sancerre itself, facing south to south-east for optimal sunshine, grown sustainably without herbicides and fed with organic fertilisers to limit yields and concentrate flavour in the berries; the estate holds HVE Level 3 certification. The grapes were harvested at perfect maturity and rigorously sorted, pressed slowly at low pressure and run off by gravity into tank, settled cool for twelve to sixteen hours before racking, fermented with wild yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel at 15-20°C, then aged eight months on fine lees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8-10°C. It works with oysters, grilled sole, goat's cheese and a herb salad. Drink over the next five to ten years; no decanting needed. Sealed with a DIAM cork. 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The fruit comes from two HVE-certified plots in the central Loire, in the land flanked by the Loire and the Vienne: one on gentle slopes of chalky clay that give concentration and tannic structure, the other on sandy soils facing the river that give fresh, aromatic fruit. Séverine Lepaul makes the wine. The grapes were sorted and carried by conveyor into a small concrete vat for a cool maceration to draw out aroma, colour and fine tannin, then fermented with selected yeasts under temperature control; pump-overs began at the full volume of the vat and tapered to wetting the cap, each one aerated through a small venturi to soften astringency and lift the red fruit. Maturation ran a year in French oak, a fifth of it new, after which the wine was blended, gently filtered and cellared twelve months in bottle before release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 16°C. Try it with roast lamb, charcuterie, duck breast and a fresh goat's cheese. Drink over the next three to five years; an hour in a decanter helps it open. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Perruche","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476412666239,"sku":"HNW-5775022A","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/5775022A.jpg?v=1789921776"},{"product_id":"2025-sancerre-rose-la-villaudiere-jean-marie-reverdy-fils","title":"Sancerre Rosé, La Villaudière, Jean-Marie Reverdy \u0026 Fils 2025","description":"\u003ch3\u003eHow it tastes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalmon pink, with a forward bouquet of strawberry, cherry and redcurrant edged with spice. Dry and fresh on the palate, smooth rather than sharp, with the floral and fruit aromas running right through to a light, long finish. Pinot Noir 100%.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Marie Reverdy works alongside his sons Guillaume and Baptiste, the latest of several generations of growers based in the village of Verdigny, on slopes looking across to the Sancerre hill. The vines here are around twenty years old and planted with an easterly exposure so that ripening is slow and gradual, thinned in July to keep them healthy through the growing cycle, with 80% of the fruit grown on the limestone terroir known locally as caillottes; the vineyard is certified HVE Level 3 for its environmental management. The wine was made entirely by direct pressing, settled for twelve to twenty-four hours, then fermented with selected yeasts in stainless steel at 15-20°C, racked off its first lees and bottled early in the year to preserve freshness and bright acidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFood and drinking\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eServe at 8-10°C. It works with grilled salmon, charcuterie, a warm goat's cheese salad or roast chicken. Drink over the next one to three years; no decanting needed. Sealed with a DIAM cork. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean-Marie Reverdy et Fils","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58476510413183,"sku":"HNW-5377125A","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/4192\/4998\/files\/5377125A.jpg?v=1789922487"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.edkawines.com\/collections\/loire-wine.oembed","provider":"Edka Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}