“De la Vigne au Vin” – From Vine to Wine

303 HORS-SÉRIE N°139  

November 2015 – 232 pages
€28 

Contents

Editorial
Roger Dion and the Ligerian vineyards 

History

• Wine production in Piriac-sur-Mer during the Roman era
• Black wine, white wine, red wine, new wine
• The Sarthe vineyards
• Wines and vines in Vendée
• Saumur’s viticultural garden, 1840-1967
• Phylloxera
• Antoine Cristal, vine and mind

Landscapes and architecture

• Vineyard landscapes
• Tradition and experiment in Anjou’s vineyards
• Antoine Cristal’s “walls of vines”
• Walled vineyards, lodges and cellars
• The protection of winegrowing landscapes

Viticulture and knowhow

• The winegrower’s tools
• Traditional winepresses in Anjou
• Vaslin and Bucher Vaslin winepresses
• The Loire Valley’s winegrowing terroirs
• Conservation of grape varieties in Pays de la Loire
• Berligou is back
• Chenin in Anjou
• The place to drink

Representation and heritage preservation

• The Lord’s vineyards
• Drunk on art
• When the packaging makes the label
• Maison Bouvet-Ladubay’s wine-label library
• A new museum for Nantes’ vineyards
• When gourmet tourists get in among the vines
• Tourist landscapes in the Nantes winegrowing area

Practices and socialites

• The Loire Valley’s lady vintners, out of the shadows and into the light
• Convivial cellars in Pays Nantais
• Wine and gastronomy
• Wine, a mirror of culture