Valençay has held official AOC status since the 2002 vintage. It was the first French region to receive AOC classification for both wine and cheese, with its distinctive pyramid-shaped goat’s cheese pairing perfectly with Valençay white wines.
Vignerons de Valençay comprises 40 hectares of vines planted on the hillsides surrounding the Cher River, with a good proportion of silex (flint) soils. Silex is greatly prized within the Loire and produces some of the region’s finest, and most mineral, wines.
FREE CHEESE: Each case of twelve bottles comes with a complimentary goats cheese from the same appellation
The cheese alledgedly gets its truncated shape from an incident involving Napoleon, a sword and a tantrum – whatever, there is no mistaking this blue-grey, chopped-cone shape.
Characteristics: natural blue/grey rind with a velvety texture; woody aroma; fresh nutty flavour with a delicate mousse like texture that melts in the mouth.