Loire Wine Tours

  Simon's wine blog today is on a matter that every winemaker wrestles with and one which the real natural winemaker will have to use all his guile in order to avoid the outcome. Tartrate crystal deposits are a difficult problem and one which has to be tackled if the tartrate is not to form in […]

  Read the news about Hubert Deffois's wines in the Vins de Loire magazine. He's received a great review for his sparkling Saumur Brut rosé. saumur pink blog 19 02 12

Simon's Wine blog – Wine Styles. So we continue with our wine styles with the last of the dry white wine styles. These are the aromatic white wines which have the most identifyable scents and flavours. The grape varieties of these wines are gewuturztaminer, Viognier, Muscat and the the grapes used to make sherry Palomino […]

My wine blog today is all about drinking bubbly. What type of glass do you us for yours? Well according to researchers it tastes better drunk from a flute than from a wide saucer glass.

So far we have looked at red wines. Firstly the light and fruity style followed by the Medium bodied red wines.

Simon’s blog today is our second look at the wine styles that help to determine the selection of wine from its aromas and how it taste in the mouth. After the light and frutiy wines comes a medium bodied wine still with some fruit but demonstrating slightly more complexity with a heavier feel in the […]

Simon’s wine blog today is about wine styles or at least the start of a number of blogs I will make on the different styles of wine. These styles depend on grape variety, vinification methods and ageing. We will start with red wines and the first style is light and fruity red wines. Red wine […]

  My blog today is about getting to know sparkling wine and how to judge its quality. When you pour out a glass of sparkling it has to be a tall flute as a wide glass spoils the wine’s effervescence. Firstly study the foam that forms in the glass when the wine is poured in. […]

Guess what my blog  is all about today. Yes the second grape of the central Loire from Angers to Touraine. Its called Chenin Blanc the most versatile grape in the world bar none. Our wine tours It makes dry crisp wine like that in the Sauvennieres appellation which lies on the Loire just near Angers. […]

My blog today is all about our half day wine tours of the central area of the Loire Valley between Angers and Tours where you are able to sample a full range of wine styles you would not believe possible from only two grape varieties. The red grape variety Cabernet Franc which you may have heard […]