Gourmet products local specialties and wines Montlouis-Sur-Loire

In this unusual cellar, François Chidaine offers winemaking styles that you won't find elsewhere. Biodynamic products, and wines from little-known, too little-known owners like Marc Angéli and his Anjou. Confidential" productions, necessarily limited in quantity, which also makes them rare. As for the wines of Domaine François Chidaine, the mellow wine is a reference. A whole range of wines produced in the respect of the environment and with a know-how resulting from the biodynamic agriculture!

Handed down from father to son for 8 generations, the Domaine covers 8 hectares on the best terroirs of Montlouis-sur-Loire. Damien and Marie-Claire offer expressive, fine and lively white wines, matured in a variety of containers such as ovoid sandstone amphorae or barrels. They work the best plots to express the full potential of Chenin Blanc. Clos de la Garenne 2020, a sweet wine produced only in certain vintages. Confluence 2020, aged in sandstone amphora and barrique, is a wine with an interesting texture.

Jacky Blot was a well-known figure in Montlouis-sur-Loire and beyond. He was one of the first to produce organic, hand-harvested, barrel-aged wines. These techniques are in full expansion today, but at the time they were still unconventional in the Loire Valley. In Vouvray, Bourgueil and Montlouis, he now cultivates 45 hectares of old vines for sparkling, dry, semi-dry, sweet and syrupy wines. Since 2023, his son Jean-Philippe has been at the helm.

Il barista is a real Ali Baba cave: grocery store with a selection of fine products,

torrefaction of 20 café origins of locals and 5 creations house, wide range of teas coming from the four corners of the world... The lovers of café and teas will be with the angels! Chance of tasting on the premises to choose its best sachet to be reported at home, and of the workshops discovered of the café and the tea are proposed to you to discover fine selections (on booking). Sale of machines espresso, coffee machines... Very good ideas of gifts to be offered or to give pleasure simply! And let us not forget the side delicatessen with chocolates of great brand, or a lot of products top-of-the-range and of quality to accompany your afternoon snack. And the customer service marks one without fault if you have a worry with your machine; management, real enthusiast, will be able to fill you with his rare café wide range.

It is much more than a pastry shop! Installed in an old winegrower's farm, in the city center of Montlouis-sur-Loire, it is also a tea room that will delight gourmets and gourmands. Design and exceptional know-how are the watchwords of the mistress of the place, Camille Poirier! The salon is a den of sweet and salty delicacies for a snack or lunch break. It is beautiful and it is good. The welcome and the service are pleasant. Ideally located on the route of the Loire by bike. Small terrace on sunny days.

This establishment offers tastings in the cellars or on the estates, tours of the cellars and vineyards, and sales of estate, bulk and bottled wines. The winegrowers of the Montlouis-sur-Loire appellation make it a point of honor to extend a warm welcome to visitors, helping them discover the richness and diversity of Montlouis-sur-Loire white wines, as well as the gastronomic specialties of the Touraine region. Domaine de la Rochepinal, run by Hervé Denis, offers a wide range of white wines, from organic to sparkling, sweet and mellow. Wine lovers can take advantage of their stay in Touraine to visit the vineyards of the Montlouis-sur-Loire winemakers and discover the secrets of wine-making.

For beer lovers, Une Gabare à Husseau offers a wide range of blond, amber and seasonal beers. All are brewed on site with local ingredients: elderflower, honey, wild hops... Valérie, Frédéric and Jéremy will show you their work during a tour of the microbrewery, and enthusiasts will be able to immerse themselves in the brewer's skin for a day. On the Loire bike route, a place and original products to discover for a change from the region's unmissable wines.