Ep 363: The Personal Side of Loire with Serge Dore Importer

<p><a href="https://www.sergedoreselections.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Serge Doré,</a> importer of French wine (and American via Quebec…he’s a man of many identities and a worldliness we can only aspire to!) and popular podcast regular, joins us to talk about the Loire Valley. Serge has been visiting the Loire since 1985 and has seen its evolution over the decades. He joins to give us the world of Loire from his perspective, humanize it with stories of producers he imports and some he has just met, and tell us what we can expect from this sometime confusing but wonderfully beautiful and diverse French wine region (for those of you interested in tariffs and how they are affecting business, the last 5 minutes of the pod is also devoted to that topic!).</p> <p><a href="https://www.sergedoreselections.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/Screenshot_080415_041246_PM.jpg" alt="" width="207" height="294" /></a></p> <p>Here are the notes:</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.sergedoreselections.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Serge</a> takes us through the main Loire regions. We being in Muscadet/the Pay Nantais. We discuss how far the wine has come in the last 20 years, and what good quality it is now. Serge says it reminds him of a ripe honeydew melon, so the grape name is fitting (the grape is called Melon de Bourgogne). He mentions Domaine Bouchaud whose wines he imports. I mention <a href="https://domaines-landron.fr/?lang=en">Domaine Louvetrie</a> as an example of a very rocky, flinty Muscadet.</li> </ol> <p><a href="https://www.sergedoreselections.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/45638/Muscadet1.png" alt="" width="281" height="320" /></a></p> <ol start="2"> <li>We talk about Anjou and the lovely Chenin Blanc here. We focus first on Savennières, and then discuss the sweet win