One of the Loire’s most diverse regions, Anjou-Saumur offers wines in a wide range of styles, the greatest being reds from Cabernet Franc and sweet whites from Chenin Blanc. With their thirty AOC, Anjou-Saumur offers an extraordinary range of flavours: full bodied and smooth reds, dry or sweet whites, dry and soft rosés as well as many sparkling wines.
Between the Pays Nantais and Touraine, Anjou-Saumur vineyard enjoys favourable conditions and offers every possible types of wine. Close to the Atlantic coast, the oceanic climate is milder and humid. In the autumn, the morning fog helps the development of noble rot essential for sweet wines.
Anjou-Saumur is most famous for the fine sweet Chenin Blanc wines of Bonnezeaux, Coteaux du Layon (including the exemplary - if tiny- Quarts de Chaume appellation) and Coteaux de l'Aubance. Some Rose d'Anjou, Cabernet d'Anjou and smoky dry Anjou Chenin Blanc are also produced. The Saumur region's bread and butter is its Mousseux, while it also produces some dry Saumur Chenin and some impressive Cabernet Franc.
