The Loire includes some of the most well known traditional areas of French wines. Balanced, classical styles flourish: from the bone dry Muscadet, medium-dry Chenin of Vouvray, to the subtle, minerally Sauvignon Blancs from Sancerre and Pouilly Fume.

Caves de Haut Pitou is a co-operative situated in the heart of the Poitou at the edge of the southern Loire. The cave is working with a great commitment to quality with the help of major financial investments from share-holders such as Georges Duboeuf. All the growers are paid according to ripeness and quality of the harvest helping to ensure that the highest concentration of ripe fruit is attained.

Roger Pabiot is a 4th generation winemaker working from a 21 hectacre Domaine in Tracy sur Loire which includes some 80 year old vines - the average age is 25 years. The varied terrior includes the four different soils of the region: hard limestone, flinty clay, sandy terraces and Kimmeridgian marl - each lending particular characteristics to the final wine.

Anjou is the most popular Rosé region in France after Provence. It is also the easiest Rosé to drink! It is never as complex as the, so called, Premiers Crus Côtes de Provence. Made from a varietal called Grolleau, nobody seems to know exactly where this vine came from. It has been in the Anjou Appellation since the Phylloxera crisis of the 1860's, and has been used to make Rosé since. The Grolleau berries are very dark so it requires only a light pressing to produce a Rosé with an “oeil de perdrix” colour.

Chateau de Mauny is an 18th century chateau located near Brissac. It has 275 acres of planted vines on a sandy/marl soil covered with alluvial pebbles deposited by the Loire river centuries ago.