Chinon AOC

The Loire Valley's most celebrated red wine appellation, Chinon produces Cabernet Franc on tufa limestone and gravel soils above the Vienne River. The wines combine red fruit, violet, and earthy pencil-shaving character with distinctive Loire freshness and mineral acidity. The best Chinon — from tuffeau soils — can age for decades and achieves a complexity rarely matched in Cabernet Franc worldwide.