Loading...
Gamay is a grape associated with Beaujolais, but delicious gamay wines also come from the Loire Valley, such as the 2009 Domaine de la Charmoise Gamay de Touraine. The Loire Valley is picture-postcard France: Rolling hills with family farms and grazing goats and sheep, vineyards sloping to the edge...
In order to gain access to all of our exclusive content, please subscribe to The Wine Odyssey for only $49.00 per year!
Recently, I had a BYOB dinner with a friend who has more than a passing knowledge of wine, but when I opened a bottle of Muscadet he confused it with Moscato. I’m sure he’s not the only one. At the western corner of France’s Loire Valley, almost on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, sits the vin...
In order to gain access to all of our exclusive content, please subscribe to The Wine Odyssey for only $49.00 per year!
Small and relatively unknown appellations like Quincy and Pouilly-Loche’ can often be the source of well-made wines at reasonable prices. Quincy is a very small appellation in France’s Loire Valley where wines are made from sauvignon blanc. It rarely earns more than a paragraph from America...
In order to gain access to all of our exclusive content, please subscribe to The Wine Odyssey for only $49.00 per year!
Small museums are often a place for quiet reflection; so too are wines such as the 2012 Laporte Quincy Les Niorles. In the world of sauvignon blanc wines, Sancerre is like the Louvre: Everyone wants to say they know it even when they don’t. Sancerre, located in the Loire Valley, reigns as the kin...
In order to gain access to all of our exclusive content, please subscribe to The Wine Odyssey for only $49.00 per year!