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The Loire Valley (Rose WIne Styles (Anjou-Saumur (high quality: Cabernet…

- - - - medum-sweet, a blend of Cbernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon
  - - - either by direct pressing or a short maceration on the skins
      - fermented in inert, temperature-controlled vessels to retain fruit flavours
- - - - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume
        
        chalky, well-drained stony soil
        
        dry, high acidity, green apple, wet stones, smoky,not aging
        
        Sancerre: Les Monts Damnes and Chavignol: high reputation expressive wines
        
        gentle pneumatic pressing and temperature controlled stainless steel vats to creat fresh fruity wine
        
        ferment and mature in old oak vessel, lees to give boarder texture
        
        a few use new oak, MLF depends
        
        cooler vintages to lower acidity
      - Menetou-Salon
        
        same style as Sancerre and Pouily-Fume
    - - Touraine, a generic appellation covers the whole Touraine region
      - label: Sauvignon de Touraine
      - less concentration, a simple gruity style
  - - - Vouvray
        
        still and sparkling
        
        cool climate and clay soils: light to medium body, fresh fruit and floral notes, rarely fermented or matured in new oak
      - Saumer and Anjou
        
        similar climates and soils
        
        Saumur
        
        sparkling
        
        Anjou
        
        dry wines, often matured in new oak
      - Savennieres and Coteaux du Layon
        
        warm, dry climate. medium to full body, less floral
        
        Savennieres
        
        full body, dry. noble rot with late harvested,
        
        best decades in the bottle
        
        Coteaux du Layon
        
        sweet wine
        
        Quarts de Chaume and Bonnezeaux, have their own appellations
  - - - Muscadet covers the widest area
      - Muscadet Sevre er Maine: great production
      - Muscadet Sur Lie: a speciality, bottled in the spring, spent the winter on its lees
- - - - Touraine
        
        south:Chinon; north: Bourgueil and Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil
        
        light, fruity, early drinking
        
        sandy soils
        
        fuller body, more tannaine come from south-facin slopes with limestone and clay soils
        
        some in oak
        
        the best have capacity to age
      - Saumur and Saumur-Champigny
        
        lighter body and tannin, juicy berry fruit, floral notes
        
        drunk young, particularly Saumur, often be served chilled
        
        a few fuller body can age
  - - - Touraine and Anjou
        
        fruity, early drinking
    - - Central Vineyards
- - - - overall is cool, from martime climate to continental climate
      - fungal disease, high levels of rainfall
      - desirable locations: southerly, mid-slope, facing the river for exara heat and releced light