| Loire Valley is amazing region with beautiful landscape, | | | | baskets to protect them from damage. |
| historic cities, villages and many great Châteaux. It | | | | As the wines are blended and bottled, they are |
| is area where you can breathe history, visit Leonardo | | | | stored in cave under Chinon castle with costant |
| da Vinci´s thomb or town of Jeane d´Arc. It is land | | | | temperature at 12° C and hygrometry at 80%. The |
| that has been cultivated for centuries. It may be that | | | | cave can store 150 000 bottles on 1500 square |
| it is the reason why the Loire Valley wine tastes so | | | | metres. Stones extracted from this cave were |
| differently. | | | | used during construction of Chinon castle. |
| Loire wine region is situated along the Loire River | | | | If you like ruby red color wines with aroma of red |
| from Muscadet region near Nantes on the Atlantic | | | | fruits, try Chinon from Chateau de la Bonneliere. Their |
| coast to the region of Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé | | | | mainstream wine - Chinon has ruby-red color and |
| southeast of Orléans in north central France. It | | | | aroma of merello cherries and redcurrant. When it is |
| includes regions Anjou, Saumur, Bourgueil, Chinon, and | | | | bottled, it is well-balanced with an excellent tannic |
| Vouvray. While the majority of production is white | | | | quality and taste of freshness and notes of liquorice. |
| wine from the Chenin blanc, Sauvignon blanc and | | | | Chateau de la Bonneliere produces one very special |
| Melon de Bourgogne grapes, there are red wines | | | | wine called Ante Phylloxera with yearly production |
| made (especially around the Chinon region) from | | | | only 1200 bottles. The wine is made from |
| Cabernet Franc. | | | | exceptional vines (Cabernet Franc) in fenced 40 |
| Château de la Bonnelière is located in the southern | | | | acres area, which survived the phylloxera in 1860. |
| part of Chinon Appellation and it covers 15 hectares. | | | | The vines are so close to each other and machines |
| Chateau was established in 1846 by family Plouzeau. | | | | cannot be used - all operation is done manually. |
| The soil consits from flint and clay. Château is | | | | If you want to know more about Chateau de la |
| known for not using any chemicals during the wine | | | | Bonneliere or wines from Loire region, visit our |
| production and growing. Only the top quality grapes | | | | website about French wine. |
| are selected. The grapes are manually harvested into | | | | |