While most wine makers in the Loire Valley region make sparkling wines, the towns of Vouvray and Montlouis (across the river) have a special distinction. They use only chenin blanc grapes in their wines. Both areas make still wines, dry and sweet, and sparkling wines. And they're all tasty. The chenin grapes give their wine a unique taste among the blends that other wineries make. The standard sparkling Touraine wines, for example, are made with mostly chardonnay blended with other grape varieties. Those wines are great, too, in my humble opinion.
This winery, Domaine des Lauriers, is a short walk from the vacation house we rented in Vouvray. Neither Ken nor I remember if we went in, tasted, or bought wine here. But we did visit other wineries nearby. By the way, a laurier is a bay laurel tree. They grow all over our region.
I’m sitting and listening to construction noise from a nearby apartment. I’d much rather be walking to that winery. By the way, I love that stone face in your photo of the week.
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ReplyDeletemitch, ah, one of the joys of apartment living.
ReplyDeletechm, want to buy a bridge? I'll sell it to you. ;)
This one is a bridge too far...
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