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Monday 2 May 2011

Vitiloire 2011: Tours – Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th May

Tours station

There will be more than 110 Loire producers at Vitiloire 2011 as well as 10 local chefs over the weekend of the 27th and 28th May. There will be stands on the Boulevard Heurteloup, Place de la Gare and in the Jardin de la Préfecture. Full details here including list of producers present.

Stands on the Boulevard Heurteloup (2010 invasion of Tours by the Bourgueil producers)


Amongst the 110+ producers are: Baudry-Dutour (Chinon), Ch de Bellevue (Layon), Ch de Gaudrelle (Vouvray), Marc Plouzeau (Chinon), Bruno Cormerais (Muscadet), Philippe Cady (Layon), Charles Pain (Chinon), Christian Papin (Anjou), Catherine Dhoye Deruet (Vouvray), Bruno Curassier (Touraine), Antoine Simoneau (Touraine), Jacky Blot (Bourgueil, Montlouis and Vouvray), Victor Lebreton (Anjou), François Jamet (Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil), Vincent Roussely (Touraine), Pierre Aguilas (Layon), Wilfred Rousse (Chinon), Domaine des Forges (Layon and Savennières), Frédéric Hardouin (Chinon), Pascal Janvier (Jasnières), Lysiane and Guy Mabileau (Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil), Sébastien Brunet (Vouvray), Lamé Delisle Boucard (Bourgueil), Pierre Caslot (Bourgueil), Serge Sourdais (Chinon), Clos Neuf des Archambaults (Touraine – Sainte-Maure), Les Maisons Rouges (Jasnières), Nau Frères (Bourgueil), Claude Lafond (Reuilly), Jean-François Merieau (Touraine), Xavier Frissant (Touraine-Amboise) and Bertrand Jousset (Montlouis).

1 comment:

david creighton said...

i went to this last year and really enjoyed it. purchased several boxes of wine and will do so again.