Oaked or Unoaked

It’s a common misperception that wine must be oaked. In actual fact, the tradition of storing wine in oak barrels has nothing to do with flavouring, and everything to do with transportation. It was simply how wine was moved from one place to another in the days of old.

Wine was not stored in oak barrels locally. In fact, during some excavations in the cellars of the Château of Chaumont some years ago, archaeologists discovered wine tanks hewn out of stone and lined with thick glass tiles.

All of the wines available on this website are unoaked, in the traditional manner of wines from the Loire Valley.