Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lana Bortolot covers the intersection of wine, business and culture. France’s Loire Valley may be known for its fairy-tale-like ...

Cruising the Loire River is not like cruising the Rhine or Danube—and that’s exactly the point. The pace is slower, the ...

Céline Blan always had a deep connection to the Loire river. She grew up at the river’s mouth in Saint-Nazaire where the estuary meets the Atlantic ocean in Western France. She was always enchanted by ...

The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), and cultivated lands formed by many ...

The Loire Valley in France is famous for its white limestone châteaux, unparalleled goat cheese, and some of the finest wine in the world. From refreshing rosés to honeyed chenin blancs and jammy ...

From the Massif Central to Nantes, it’s home to freethinking winemakers making elegant drinks – including thrillingly reinvigorated muscadet The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I am ashamed of not having visited any Loire wine region other than Sancerre and Pouilly-sur-Loire for years, ...

Rivers make entertaining travelling companions, and none more so than the mighty Loire. France's longest river gurgles into life from the flanks of a windswept pillar of volcanic rock up in the ...

France's lavish royal past is everywhere in the gentle landscapes of the Loire Valley. Hundreds of majestic châteaux and palaces follow the course of the country's longest river as it makes its ...