Wines of Loire and food:
Loire wines go very well with any dish based on pork, from paté to roast, ham and chicken, from fish to sea-food, from eel to trout. They are just palatable with all the summer cooking.
Muscadet is excellent with oysters, the Sancerre with goat-cheese.
Food in Loire:
- Shellfish
- Rillettes (kind of paté)
- Moules Marinières (mussels in white wine sauce)
Cheeses of the Loire Valley:
- Chabichou du Poitou
- Crottin de Chavignol
- Valencay
