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Vouvray wine region
Vouvray is the most famous, the most respected and probably the most confusing appellation of the Touraine, a wine district in the Loire Valley of western France. Created by decree in December 1936, the title covers white wines from eight parishes around the town of Vouvray, on the northern bank of the Loire river as it flows into the city of Tours.
With its long history, it is rather surprising that the Vouvray appellation has managed to remain a single title, given the array of styles it covers. Vouvray wines can be roughly divided into sweet, dry, still and sparkling, which the sweetness levels are broken down into Sec, Sec-Tendre, Demi-Sec and Moelleux, and the sparkling wines are categorised as Petillant or Mousseux. To add confusion, only the Petillant and Mousseux statements are efficiently regulated by appellation law, and even then it only states that the two styles of wine must be packaged in recognizably distinct ways. Apart from Sec (which is restricted to wines with less than 8g/L of residual sugar), the sweetness levels used for Vouvray wines are an unofficial guideline.
Vouvray is the flagship wine of the more ...
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Touraine wine region
Touraine is the district at the very heart of the Loire Valley wine region of France, both geographically and in terms of production. Named after the city of Tours at its center, it follows the course of the Loire river for roughly 60 miles (100km), from Blois and Mesland in the east to Chinon and Bourgueil in the west.
Touraine has its own generic regional appellation (simply called Touraine) which covers the entire district, as well as several titles that are more specific in terms of both location and wine style. These range from the dry, fruity reds of Saint-Nicolas de Bourgueil to the myriad whites of Vouvray and Montlouis. Trapped in the hinterland between Tours and Orleans, Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny are often grouped in as part of the wider Touraine.
Wines made under the Touraine regional appellation may be red, white or rose, and each color also comes in sparkling Mousseux variants. The still red wines are made principally from more ...
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