Wine Guy: Looking into the Loire

Like most everything, wine goes through trends. Remember when one memorable (and very unfavourable) quote in the movie Sideways pushed Merlot to the has-been bin?
Without doubt, wine styles — and by association wine regions — are subject to the waxing and waning of trends: be they gastronomic or pop cultural. One region having a moment (certainly within the professional wine community, and filtering through the wine world writ large) is France’s Loire Valley, which these days i