The river Loire begins in the middle of France, near the village of St. Etienne, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the city Nantes. The Loire is also called "Le Jardin de la France" (the garden of France). As the area is very vast, nearly 1,000 km long, the climate and the composition of the ground is very different. The most common grape of the wines of the Loire is the Chenin Blanc. It is the primary grape for dry, sweet, semi-sweet and sparkling Loire wines. The excellent ones sometimes ca... | more