Loire & Bordeaux Recommendations

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garrett_pierce

Garrett Pierce
Excited to visit the Loire Valley for my first time in June, and I've been searching past threads for Loire restaurant/wine bar/shop recommendations to no avail (minus some posts mentioning Domaine de Hauts de Loire, which is a little out of my price range). Any can't-miss spots along my trek from Pouilly/Sancerre to Muscadet?
Also looking for recommendations in Bordeaux (left or right bank).
Wine appointments are set already, for the most part.

Really appreciate the help and would happily would very happily repay you in Sonoma-area-hospitality if you ever find yourself in my (and Jim's) neck of the woods.
 
cafe de la promenade in bourgueil. bed and breakfast, bar, restaurant, and wine shop focusing on local chemical-free non-spoof wines. fantastic and not expensive. great proprietor. but don't tell anyone else about it.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I'll second Sophie and Ludo's La Promenade, also in my trip report from 2010.
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Long enough ago that you could have broken a mirror and be free. Huh.
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I like your mirror image.

Thanks, Mark, I was too lazy.
 
La Promenade restaurant in le Petit-Pressigny has been excellent for a long time. They used to have Rougeard back into the 1890s and half-bottles of Huet going back a couple of decades. It's been a while since I've been there, but it still has a Michelin star. It isn't cheap, per se, but there are many under priced (way by US standards) wines on the list.

They used to run a charming B&B across the street as well. There isn't anything in this hamlet but the restaurant.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I'll second Sophie and Ludo's La Promenade, also in my trip report from 2010.
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No longer everyone. We went there on our bike tour last year, were even going to stay overnight, it's been sold, now inhabited by evil surly biker people, I kid you not. Mega avoid.
 
originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I'll second Sophie and Ludo's La Promenade, also in my trip report from 2010.
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No longer everyone. We went there on our bike tour last year, were even going to stay overnight, it's been sold, now inhabited by evil surly biker people, I kid you not. Mega avoid.
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wow, so shockingly sad. stayed there 3 nights in october 2012 and it was the most complete accommodation room and board that i could ever hope for. ate there every evening and at some point each evening pierre breton was in with others. i wonder where he goes now?
 
originally posted by robert ames:
originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I'll second Sophie and Ludo's La Promenade, also in my trip report from 2010.
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No longer everyone. We went there on our bike tour last year, were even going to stay overnight, it's been sold, now inhabited by evil surly biker people, I kid you not. Mega avoid.
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wow, so shockingly sad. stayed there 3 nights in october 2012 and it was the most complete accommodation room and board that i could ever hope for. ate there every evening and at some point each evening pierre breton was in with others. i wonder where he goes now?
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Pizza Hut. It's the new magnet that has the locals buzzing.
 
brave is hardly the word for it.

and you are up late--it's even sort of kinda approaching late here in walla walla.

what are you drinking?--i've just had a bit of mas de gourgonnier rose les baux de provence and am now working on a cotes de thongue rose (gotta love that aoc, er igt) from croix belle.
 
I have an inordinate fondness for Mas de Gourgonnier red. Those fat little bottles come with many a fond memory. And their fancy cuvee isn't bad, either.

I've only got a nondescript Australian pinot grigio at the moment. But there's a kangaroo on the box, so I'm pretty happy about that.
 
moi had a squat bottle of the mas de gourgonnier red 2014 just last night. yes, many fond memories--for close to 30 years now anyway. (moi is not old yet, but it seems to be pretty much just around the corner.)

oy--austrailian pinot grigio. (condolences?) moi is not sold on the idea. moi suggests that you get a job in the wine industry where one can buy any number of delectable lovelies at wholesale. even alsatien pinot gris.
 
originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I'll second Sophie and Ludo's La Promenade, also in my trip report from 2010.
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No longer everyone. We went there on our bike tour last year, were even going to stay overnight, it's been sold, now inhabited by evil surly biker people, I kid you not. Mega avoid.
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not that it matters a lot, but do you mean motorcycle bikers or pedal bikers?
 
originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I'll second Sophie and Ludo's La Promenade, also in my trip report from 2010.
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No longer everyone. We went there on our bike tour last year, were even going to stay overnight, it's been sold, now inhabited by evil surly biker people, I kid you not. Mega avoid.
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How sad. And just when United announced a direct flight to Bourgueil.
 
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