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| | Saveur - Wine from the Garden of France (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Vouvray, a pleasant town of 3,000 people on the north bank of the river, just upstream from the urban sprawl of Tours, hugs the base of a line of modest, chalky limestone cliffs. |
 | | To understand Vouvray’s array, you have to know that (in the Loire Valley, at least) chenin blanc flowers early and ripens late, displays an astonishing range of sugar when ripe, and retains a lot of acidity even in the presence of high sugar. |
 | | Some years in Vouvray produce a preponderance of semisweet, sweet, and even supersweet wines, while others produce nothing sweeter than a sec (theoretically containing less than four grams of residual sugar), with the bulk of the crop sometimes ending up in sparkling wine—which has the lowest requirement for sugar and potential alcohol. |
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