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Highlights: Les Gaules de Bois Grolleau ‘Jackpot’ 2023 Vin de France

May 19, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2124 Views grolleau

Les Gaules de Bois (Vincent Alexis & Romuald Cousy) Jackpot Grolleau 2023 Vin de France10.5% alcohol. Vincent Alexis makes wines

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Reds from the Centre Loire: Sancerre, Menetou-Salon, Reuilly, Coteaux du Giennois and Châteaumeillant

January 17, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2916 Views pinot noir, Sancerre

The Centre Loire is best known for Sauvignon Blanc from Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, but it also does some very interesting

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Exploring the Centre Loire (4) Domaine Villargeau, Coteaux du Giennois

November 20, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 4822 Views

Website: https://www.domaine-villargeau.fr/ Villargeau is an impressive producer based in the Coteaux du Giennois in the Centre Loire. I visited with

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Highlights: Domaine Roche Bleue L’Orée de la Berterie 2022 Coteaux-du-Loir

February 11, 2024February 12, 2024 jamiegoode 3292 Views Chenin Blanc

Domaine Roche Bleue L’Orée de la Berterie 2022 Coteaux-du-Loir, Loire13.5% alcohol. This is Chenin Blanc from 30 year old vines.

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Clos Galerne: mastery of Chenin in some great Anjou terroirs

February 2, 2024 jamiegoode 4493 Views Chenin Blanc

Website: https://closgalerne.com/ Cédric Bourez is the dude behind Clos Galerne, and exciting and relatively new producer in Anjou. His background

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A Centre Loire study: seven wines, red and white

January 14, 2024 jamiegoode 2814 Views

Tasted these Centre Loire wines together. It’s an interesting region and there are lots of good terroirs here. I visited

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Highlights: Laura David L’Insolente Montlouis-Sur-Loire 2022

January 5, 2024January 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4251 Views Chenin Blanc

Website: https://laura-david.com/fr/ Laura David established her domaine in 2017 at the age of 25 with 7 hectares of vines in

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Exploring the Centre Loire (3) Domaine Daniel Chotard, Sancerre

November 10, 2023November 13, 2023 jamiegoode 6662 Views Sancerre

Website: https://www.chotard-sancerre.fr/en/ Chotard is in the small village of Reigny, and it was a beautiful October afternoon when we visited,

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Exploring the Centre Loire (2) Domaine Bernard Fleuriet, Sancerre

October 20, 2023October 20, 2023 jamiegoode 7370 Views Sancerre

Website: https://www.fleuriet-sancerre.com/ Bernard Fleuriet is one of Sancerre’s most interesting producers in the region, and we met with Matthieu Fleuriet

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Exploring the Centre Loire (1) Domaine La Croix St-Laurent with Fabien Cirotte

October 14, 2023October 14, 2023 jamiegoode 4306 Views Sancerre

The Domaine La Croix St-Laurent is run by Joël et Sylvie Cirotte and their son Fabien (pictured above), so you

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
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Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
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Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 jamiegoode

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