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Chinon in the Loire Valley - Favorite Wineries and Tasting Rooms in Chinon
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items Steeped in history and viticulture, Chinon is known for its wines of Cabernet Franc. Check out some favorite wineries and tasting rooms in the area. Cheers!
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On the Left Bank of Chinon, native land of François Rabelais, extends a wine landscape preserved for several centuries. The wines are outstanding!
Caves M Plouzeau
Domaine Couly-Dutheil, founded in 1921 and owner of prestigious terroirs such as the famous Clos de l'Écho and Clos de l'Olive, produces memorable wines at this historic wine tasting venue.
Domaine Couly-Dutheil
Created more than 40 years ago, the estate extends over several terroirs, from the clay-limestone plateaus of Ligré to Beaumont, via the gravel of Rivière and the hillsides of Chinon. A new team took over the estate in 2015, and is hard at work to pr...
Domaine de l'Abbaye - Vidya Agro
Since 1987, the Cave Monplaisir has brought together 3 great estates of the great wines of the Chinon appellation. The Cave Monplaisir is an old underground quarry of more than 2500m2 of "tufa" stone. Over the centuries, towns and castles in the Loir...
Cave Monplaisir
The Domaine Pierre & Bertrand Couly extends over twenty hectares in the heart of the Chinon appellation in Touraine. The family comes from a long line of winegrowers that dates back to the fifteenth century in the village of Saint-Louans. Pierre ...
Pierre and Bertrand COULY
La Cave des Silènes is the wine bar of the Domaine Charles Joguet. Also available are snacks and salads, but wines from other Loire Valley regions are offered, too.
Cave des Silènes
The philosophy of the Domaine is to offer wines of high expression, representative and faithful to the place where they were born. Each exhibits finesse, elegance and character. The Domaine de Noiré is a famous wine, located in the place called Noiré...
Domaine de Noiré
Fiona Beeston produces 2 cuvées of red Chinon from the Cabernet Franc grape from the Clos des Capucins, her walled vineyard. 2011 was her first vintage. Fiona Beeston’s other Chinon is from a separate vineyard 3 km away - 2012 is the first vintage. B...
Le Clos Des Capucins
I have visited the Domaine and was impressed with the wines, people, history and property. Made up of beautiful clay-limestone plateaus and hillsides, it is home to 20 hectares of Cabernet Franc and 6 hectares of Chenin, the only grape varieties of t...
Domaine de la Noblaie
I love the wines from this domain that now has 32 hectares of vineyards spread across the AOC Chinon, in Cravant les Coteaux and Chinon. The grape is grown primarily Cabernet Franc (90%) plus a small production of Chenin Blanc (about 10%). The vineya...
Bernard Baudry
All wines are 100% Cabernet Franc. Located in the heart of the Chinon appellation, Domaine Brocourt cultivates thirty-two hectares of vines spread over five communes: Chinon, Ligré, Rivière, La Roche-Clermault and Beaumont en Véron. This dispersion o...
Domaine Brocourt Wines
Something a bit different! Created in 1973, this site was intended for professionals as a place of experimentation with Cabernet Franc and Chenin Blanc. Since 1980, the estate has been attached to Tours Fondettes Agrocampus, which includes an agricul...
FIELD OF MILLARGES - WINES OF CHINON
The tasting room is located in Chinon and you can visit the estate as well. They are a family of winegrowers of several generations and have been cultivating Chenin and Cabernet Franc in a natural wine world since 1990.
Domaine Breton Catherine et Pierre
Le Chai is wine tasting room so that we can taste a variety of wines from the region.
le chai de Thélème
This well appointed tasting room in Chinon allows wine lovers to sip wines from the Chinon region as well as others in the Loire Valley.
Taste vin
The Caves is a huge underground wine cellar at the Chateau de Chinon. The tour (in Franch and English) is in 3 parts: video, tour, tasting. Interesting and entertaining. Guide was lovely and did the tour in French and English. Local wines are availab...
Les Caves Painctes