What hasn't really changed all that much is the relative obscurity of Loire Chenin Blanc.
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Leon, a globe-trotting Frenchman from the Loire Valley, arrived in the city 13 years ago.
Food loves these wines, indeed, many white wines from the Loire just pant for oysters.
An Australian or a Texan cannot distinguish between a Loire wine and a Bourgogne.
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Down on a farm in the Loire valley, Bayrou is stressing his rural roots.
Note, this is not an exhaustive list of all Loire appellations, but rather a place to start.
Cabernet Franc, grown in the Chinon and Saumur regions of the Loire, has bright fruit and high-toned acidity like Pinot Noir.
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Chenin Blanc almost certainly originated in the central Loire Valley, although both California and South Africa have more acreage planted in it.
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Not surprisingly, he said it was a Chenin Blanc from his native Loire Valley, but he couldn't remember the maker or the vintage.
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American Ambassador to Germany Richard Holbrooke rode to the rescue, offering me a consoling trip through the Loire valley in his armored Buick.
With that it time to go and he is eager that I taste some wine from one of his favorite producers in the Loire.
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For example, a March 10 post on the inadequacy of language culminates in a few notes about a Cheverney Rouge (a wine from the Loire).
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The order was a response to last month's attack on a police station in the Loire Valley town of Saint-Aignan by a group of young Roma.
Dagueneau, whose aim was to make the best Sauvignon Blanc in the world, did more for showcasing the potential quality of the Loire's Sauvignon than perhaps any other.
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Indeed, Sancerre is physically closer to Chablis than many other regions in the Loire Valley, and the best of its wines have much in common with those flinty white Burgundies.
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But it had the characteristic pear, apple and honey flavors of his beloved Loire Chenin, and it was the first wine he'd tasted since his capture some two years before.
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"The collective reality of unemployment should not make us forget the everyday, individual distress of each unemployed person, " said Jacques Auxiette, chairman of the Pays de la Loire regional council.
These included the same three grapes that Mr. Goldstein mentioned but a few others as well, namely Cabernet Franc, from the Loire, and Frappato, a red grape native to Sicily.
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Chenin reaches its greatest heights in the Loire Valley, but in keeping with French practice you won't see the name of the grape on the bottle, but rather the village or region where it's grown.
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While Chardonnay grew to fame as "white Burgundy, " Pinot Gris began turning up in odd corners of the wine world under murky aliases: In France alone, Pinot Gris is also known as Tokay d'Alsace, Pinot Beurot in Burgundy and Malvoisie in the Loire.
One of my favorites in the "interesting but not intellectually taxing" category is Vouvray, the dry, minerally white from the Loire Valley that's delicious when young but amazing with a few years' age, particularly made by great producers like Domaine Huet and Jacky Blot.
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There are also sommeliers who know a lot about wine but don't like the labor that comes with the job: "They tend to spend more time acquiring degrees than working the floor, " said Mr. Johnnes, who once hired a sommelier who could name all of the subregions of the Loire (there are quite a few) but didn't enjoy the physical part of the work.
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