If you like a cheap date and wine monogamy isn’t your thing, you’ll love playing the field with Loire Valley wines. A long and winding region threaded by the Loire River, it is home to myriad ...

WHEN sommeliers speak of wines from the Loire Valley, a funny thing happens to their tone of voice. It gets softer, more tender, as if they’re not talking about wine anymore, but maybe showing you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lana Bortolot covers the intersection of wine, business and culture. France’s Loire Valley may be known for its fairy-tale-like ...

The Loire is one of the great rivers of France; it is also the longest, originating in the south-central countryside 30 miles to the west of the Rhône. The two rivers run parallel for 100 miles, then ...

Loire Valley is the classic runner up: overlooked, disregarded and somewhat offbeat. Though vast and diverse, Loire may be the least known of France’s great wine regions. In some ways, Loire has ...

During the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, trillions of oysters as cute as a button — and about that size — called exogyra virgula gave of their lives and shells and, compacted atop each other and ...

AMONG the many wonderful, distinctive red wines in the world, those from the Loire Valley may well get the least respect in proportion to their superb quality. It does little good to wonder why. That ...