2024

MAISON DES VINS DE CHEVERNY

Wine Cellar Wine House
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In front of the château's entrance, the Maison des Vins offers an original self-service concept in which visitors receive a glass fitted with a microchip under the stem, allowing them to select between 4 and 7 wines from the hundred or so on offer for tasting! Visitors can also taste the day's wines free of charge. An app for mobile phones and tablets allows you to follow the tasting with advice from the chosen winemaker on how to best match wines and dishes.

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2024

DOMAINE DE LA PLANTE D’OR

Winery

Visit of the Wine Museum in the barrel cellar with slide show. This estate opens the doors to share a family passion. You will learn, among other things, that the estate is known for its Romorantine grape variety, which was said to be the favourite wine of Francis I. It is a white wine with great ageing potential which, according to Rabelais, "feeds off the fire of the spirit and extinguishes the fire of passion". The estate contributes to the renown of the Cour-Cheverny and Cheverny appellations.

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2024

DOMAINE PHILIPPE TESSIER

Winery

In this domain located near the castle of Troussay and close to the castles of Cheverny, Fougères and Beauregard, you will receive a quality welcome at this winegrower's who will introduce you to the red, rosé and white cheverny and cour-cheverny wines, as well as to the crémant de Loire. The vineyard has been run in organic farming since 1998, hand-picking and natural winemaking without inputs. Exceptional wines from old vines are only produced in favourable years such as the Romorantique, aged 3 months in buried amphoras.

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