The history of the Loire wines is connected in every way, noblesse oblige, with French history.

Region of Nantes – Anjou – Touraine – Centre

The four major wine-producing regions concerned by the Val de Loire appellation is home to vineyards of which the oldest were planted by Romans in the Nantes area more than 2000 years ago.
Mainly cultivated by monks, grape vines would later be planted alongside the rivers, on the initiative of Dutch merchants who settled in Nantes and thanks to river trade between the south-west and Brittany, thus making it possible to import different types of grape varieties.

During the Middle Ages, when Henry II Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, became King of England in 1154, he had Anjou wines served to his court, a custom carried on by John Lackland and Henry III, giving the wines of Anjou noble status.

Muscadet - Anjou - Coteaux du Layon - Saumur - Touraine -Bourgueil - Vouvray - Chinon - Pouilly Fumé - Sancerre - Loire Wines
So many appellations enticing you to taste fruity and light wines that sometimes have mineral flavors emanating from the river which makes up their soil… and why not during a cooking class led by one of the area’s best chefs?
An initiation filled with surprise… and French history.