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The Loire Valley, is located in the middle stretch of the Loire River in central France, in both the administrative regions Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire.
The area of the Loire Valley comprises about 800 square kilometres.
It is referred to as the Cradle of the French and the Garden of France due to the abundance of vineyards, fruit orchards (such as cherries), and artichoke, and asparagus fields, which line the banks of the river.
Notable for its historic towns, architecture, and wines, the valley has been inhabited since the Middle Palaeolithic period.
The climate is favorable most of the year, the river often acting as a line of demarcation in France's weather between the northern climate and the southern.
The river has a significant effect on the mesoclimate of the region, adding a few degrees of temperature.
The climate can be cool with springtime frost while wine harvest months may have rain.
Summers are hot; however, influences from the Atlantic moderate the temperature with breezes.
The Loire Valley wine region is one of the world's most well-known areas of wine production and includes several French wine regions situated along the river from the Muscadet region on the Atlantic coast to the regions of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé just southeast of the city of Orléans in north central France.
Loire wines tend to exhibit a characteristic fruitiness with fresh, crisp flavors.
The châteaux, numbering more than three hundred, represent a nation of builders starting with the necessary castle fortifications in the 10th century to the splendour of those built half a millennium later.
When the French kings began constructing their huge châteaux here, the nobility, not wanting or even daring to be far from the seat of power, followed suit.
Their presence in the lush, fertile valley began attracting the very best landscape designers.
In addition to its many châteaux, the cultural monuments illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the Renaissance and the Age of the Enlightenment on western European thought and design.
Many of the châteaux were designed to be built on the top of hills, one example of this is the Château d'Amboise.
The only château to have been built in the riverbed is the Château de Montsoreau.
Many of the châteaux had extremely detailed and expensive churches on the grounds, or within the actual château itself.
On December 2, 2000, UNESCO added the central part of the river valley, between Chalonnes-sur-Loire and Sully-sur-Loire, to its list of World Heritage Sites.
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Domaine Didier Daguenau à Pouilly-sur-Loire
Présentation du Domaine Didier Daguenau par Louis-Benjamin Daguenau
Wine Tasting and Tour in Sancerre, France
Sancerre, France - We visit a renowned winery in Sancerre for a tour and private tasting. This medieval hilltop village overlooks a vibrant region which has known viticulture since Roman times.
Sancerre sits on a domed hill overlooking the Loire. The view from Sancerre extends over the mountainous vineyards surrounding the town. The view is splendid and even better if you follow the maze of old cobbled streets to the top of the village and climb up the 200 steps of the Tour de Fief, the last trace of the château of the counts of Sancerre. In the 16th century, the château was a Protestant Huguenot fortress. Sancerre is a wine village, providing many opportunities for wine-tastings of Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc at Sancerre Vineyards. Chavignol, just two miles away, is where the most famous goat cheese of France, le Crottin de Chavignol, is made.
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France: The Town of Sancerre
Sancerre is a medieval hilltop town, commune and canton in the Cher department of central France overlooking the Loire River.
The town is a cobweb of twisted streets with many buildings surviving from the Middle Ages.
Sancerre is located 310 meters above sea level, on an isolated mountain, attached to the hills of the natural region of Sancerrois and whose summit dominates the level of the Loire several hundred meters.
The town is about two kilometers from the left bank of the Loire and its confluence with the Vauvise, the lateral canal to the Loire and 43 km north-east of the Cher prefecture, Bourges. The city stretches on the steepest slope, located southwest, from the base of the hill to the summit1. Sancerre offers a panorama of its vineyards and the banks of the Loire.
Natural wines of the Loire Valley - Cheverny
In this episode,
we jump a ride to Cheverny in the Loire Valley with our friend Jean-Luc where we visit the house of Christian Venier. A 3rd generation natural winemaker for an impromptu wine tasting and lunch for the birthday of his father, 90-year-old Eugène Venier.
An absolute legend of a human who has been making organic natural wine since before world war 2.
We meet some other excellent natural winemakers from across France.
Laurent Saillard from Pouillé and Jeff Coutelou from Languedoc.
We have a quick interview with Christian, Eugène and Jeff with the expert help of Laurant as translator.
Music courtesy of:
Iron Horse - Bluegrass cover of Modest Mouse's Polar Opposites
Leo Marjane & Brassai - Je suis seule ce soir, 1941.
To read more on the natural winemakers (Courtesy of wineterroirs.com)
CHRISTIAN VENIER
LAURENT SALLIARD
JEFF COUTELOU
Thank you so much to the whole Venier family for such a wonderful day
Paris Wine Day Tours
Wine tours from Paris with wine-day-tours.com
Printemps spring france bord de loire river Tours
France (French: [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.[XVI] The European part of France, called metropolitan France, extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. France spans 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi)[1] and has a total population of 66.6 million.[VI][8] It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. The Constitution of France establishes the state as secular and democratic, with its sovereignty derived from the people.
During the Iron Age, what is now Metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Gauls were conquered in 51 BC by the Roman Empire, which held Gaul until 486. The Gallo-Romans faced raids and migration from the Germanic Franks, who dominated the region for hundreds of years, eventually creating the medieval Kingdom of France. France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) strengthening French state-building and paving the way for a future centralized absolute monarchy. During the Renaissance, France experienced a vast cultural development and established the beginning of a global colonial empire. The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots).
France became Europe's dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV.[9] French philosophers played a key role in the Age of Enlightenment during the 18th century. In the late 18th century, the absolute monarchy was overthrown in the French Revolution. Among its legacies was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, one of the earliest documents on human rights, which expresses the nation's ideals to this day. France became one of modern history's earliest republics until Napoleon took power and launched the First French Empire in 1804. Fighting against a complex set of coalitions during the Napoleonic Wars, he dominated European affairs for over a decade and had a long-lasting impact on Western culture. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a tumultuous succession of governments: the monarchy was restored, it was replaced in 1830 by a constitutional monarchy, then briefly by a Second Republic, and then by a Second Empire, until a more lasting French Third Republic was established in 1870. The French republic had tumultuous relationships with the Catholic Church from the dechristianization of France during the French Revolution to the 1905 law establishing laïcité. Laïcité is a strict but consensual form of secularism, which is nowadays an important federative principle in the modern French society.
France reached its territorial height during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when it ultimately possessed the second-largest colonial empire in the world.[10] In World War I, France was one of the main winners as part of the Triple Entente alliance fighting against the Central Powers. France was also one of the Allied Powers in World War II, but came under occupation by the Axis Powers in 1940. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War. The Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Following World War II, most of the French colonial empire became decolonized.
Throughout its long history, France has been a leading global center of culture, making significant contributions to art, science, and philosophy. It hosts Europe's third-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites (after Italy and Spain) and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, the most of any country in the world.[11] France remains a great power with significant cultural, economic, military, and political influence.[12] It is a developed country with the world's sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP[13] and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity.[14] According to Credit Suisse, France is the fourth wealthiest nation in the world in terms of aggregate household wealth.[15] It also possesses the world's largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ), covering 11,691,000 square kilometres (4,514,000 sq mi).[16]
Loire River Picnic
James Alan Sutherland II and father stop on the Loire River valley to picnic. They had picked up the food at the Nantes Sunday market.
Beklimmen van de Roche Solutre (Bourgogne)
De top bereikt van de Roche Solutre, bij Macon, Frankrijk.
Pfff, dat was een heel geklauter bij 30 graden.
BARGING THROUGH FRANCE PT 7 - BURGUNDY 3
In Part 7 of this video series about traveling the waterways of France on a tug boat, Richard Goodwin takes us to his favourite place on his favourite river in France, the Saone. Some film from an earlier trip illustrates the great charms of this river. In this area there are three great abbeys, Cluny in the south which had a bigger church than St Peter's in Rome until it was destroyed in the French Revolution because the abbey had become too big and too corrupt to be allowed to continue. Vezelay where many of the crusaders mounted their horses for their struggle to restore Jerusalem to the Christian faith. In this amazing abbey, there many beautifully carved capitols on the top of the columns. They are made of marble and each must weigh more than a man can lift but they look as though they are as light as a feather, so skilfully have they been carved. The last abbey in this area is Autun which has many treasures the best being the carved capitols which depict the Nativity story.
Not far away we visit the abbey of Fontenay which had been founded by St. Bernard. Here the monks had made everything that they needed. They specialised in metalwork and became famous for it. Sadly the British sacked the abbey but the Mongolfier family who had done so much to promote the hot air balloon restored it to its former glory.
Short of food on a Monday I went to an old abbey where they ran a communal table. On this Monday, there was a group of women who had gone on a retreat there. The noise in the stone hall was unbelievable with all these women talking at the tops of their voices. The best argument for the vow of silence! We then meet a monk who shows us his cheese which he sells to the public. I asked him whether the good Lord had had a hand in its manufacture. The monk replied very sharply that the Lord made the grass grow and the monks did the rest.
We gaze at a pillar dedicated to St. Nicolas the patron saint of mariners. On the top of the column is a statue of a weeping wolf. The wolf is weeping for all the children that he has eaten.
Then my daughter, Sabine and her husband Caspar came to have a meal with some barge people by the side of the canal. Sabine made a good sauce from the rests in the galley which was good. A luxury barge passes and we see how the very rich live.
I visited next Louisa Besson, a woman of considerable confidence in her own prowess. Like Anne Baxter, I am sure she had stamped on her passport in the profession section the word 'Star'. She makes edible decorations for cakes etc, turtles, dogs, mother and child tableaux. She blows up a ball of green sugar which she confidently assures us that very few people in world besides herself can do.
Through the tunnel by boat at Pouilly en Auxois, which when it was built was considered to be an enormous achievement lies the town. In that little town is one of the most remarkable emporiums I have ever been into. Mr. Daird is the ancient proprietor and since it is clear that he has been in charge of this shop for many a year, there is a variety of goods, ancient and modern that defy description. Everything is done by hand and done by Mr. Daird himself so patience is essential. No computer bugs here.
We take a passage with some British tourists on a boat they have hired from one of the many boat hire companies along the canal. We tour some of the luscious markets of Burgundy. At Chez Meme I have a wonderful meal for $10 and do a bit of eavesdropping. At the table next door which has 5 men and one 80 year old woman who says loudly that she likes to eat with men (Godbless her) and that when she puts her makeup on she looks twenty years younger.
I go dancing at another riverside café and go off to the famous jambon persille competition. The first prize goes to an entry weighing 227.5 kgs of ham in aspic and parsley. Good luck to anyone who tries to eat it. Then Monique shows me her riverside shop and how she dries her sausages in cinders.
Finally Regina and I tie up for a blessing in the Grand Pardon at St Jean de Losne. An amazing annual ceremony, where the boat people are blessed by the river padre who arrives on his church barge.