chateau de miniere

This winery is a great find. It is owned and managed by Katherine van den Burghe. She has made a career change and leap of faith from commercial consultancy to vigneron and seemed to me to be making a great success of the enterprise. The winery has undergone extensive refurbishment since its acquisition in 2010 and is based on a solid vision of organic cultivation and liaison with local provedores. The Lunch was excellent for this reason and showcased local produce well presented for a tour group of 8 or so.Wines were excellent and I am still trying to work out how to get the really great red into my shelves. Our glorious Giovernment put a 30% import tax on wines we bring into the country! Katherine is exploring export to Australia which is good news because she produces what we un-wine snobs call a good drop! I particularly enjoyed a belter of a red from the Centeraine range from 100 year old vines. After lunch the fitter in the group wandered off to explore the vineyards while I sat in the sun communicating with the vineyard cat, a charming creature with excellent English!Recommended as a great day out and note that dinner may be optional! It’s was very good lunch.

Superb Cab Franc with very surprising and fresh summer drink bubbly Bulles rouge de Minière! Absolutely recommend to try while sitting and chatting with wonderful hosts! Beautiful setting right on the bike route.

We booked a tour of the wine valley, which ended up having a lunch and tasting here. We were very fortunate to have timed it to meet the new owner (since 2010) and genuinely enjoyed sharing and talking with her. She is well educated, taking a chance on building a new business for herself, and has some excellent wines derived from her estate vineyards. Fantastic overall experience as well as some wonderful wines. Being from California, it was a refreshing homey experience.

We visited the chateau during the summer when the Tour de France passed nearby. We received a very warm welcome by Kathleen, the owner of the chateau, and tasted some of their wines. We especially liked the ‘bulles rosé”, a nice sparkling rosé brut. We’ve bought our share; it has become our standard gift whenever we visit friends and it’s a hit ! The chateau is worth the visit and we enjoyed our walk around the domain. There’s plenty of interesting trips to make in the vicinity of the chateau so we’ll be back during our France trip next year.

My wife and I had been travelling the wine regions of France and arrived at our final destination of the Loire Valley. We received a surprise response to one of our tweets, where we had highlighted we were in the Loire, which invited us to come for a wine tasting at Chateau de Miniere. We thought this a bit of a novelty for France, as many producers haven't quite taken to social networking yet. So we were intrigued and decided that we should definitely go. We were not disappointed. We arrived at the impressive and beautiful Chateau, surrounded by vines, and were met by the owner Kathleen, who invited us to taste her range of wines, including a sparkling red Cabernet Franc, something very new to us and very tasty. We found Kathleen very professional in her approach and her wines extremely well made, which prompted us to buy a selection that are now being enjoyed back home. We certainly see ourselves returning here in future.

Very nice free tasting room with international award winning red, rose and "bubbles" wines and even grape juice for the children with a welcoming staff, self guided informational and historical tour with many photo opportunities round the chateau built in the mid 1400's. Staff speaks multiple languages such as French, English, German and Dutch which is unusual for this mostly French speaking area.Local Bike Trails within the vineyard as well as connected for to the main bike trails. Great restaurant the promenade near by and other with great local reviews within walking distance. The town of Bourgeuil has a terrific open market on Tuesdays in the middle of town square. So Chateau de Miniere, farmers market and mid day meal at Promenade makes for a terrific day.

Lovely chateaux, very friendly service and fabulous wine. We did our wine tasting on bikes so returned the next day to buy a couple of boxes of the lovely wine.

We have been to the Chateau de Minière last year, after we stayed in Nantes. Even taking into account that the new owners were in the middle of renovations, it was more than worthwhile to visit it. I understood that by now the renovations of the chateau are finished, so we are going back this summer to spent some more time over there.We received a very warm welcome and they speak several languages besides French. The vineyards are located inside as well as outside the wall of the chateau. They have different wines (red, rose and sparkling wine) and sell as well some local products based on their wine (I can recommend the jam and the cherries).

Facile à trouver avec le GPS, accueil sympa, mais c'est dommage de faire la visite seuls alors qu'ils semblaient dispo..... Dégustation agréable. Tarifs identiques aux grandes surfaces, mais on a pu goûter !!!!

Minière, un beau château à taille humaine, moest een bijzondere plek worden voor een bijzondere gelegenheid. De hartelijke ontvangst en de schitterende omgeving stonden voor a complete and unique wine experience.Het excuus om er heel snel terug te gaan hoeft heus niet meer zo bijzonder te zijn.Warm aanbevolen!

Het verblijf op Château Minière is echt genieten en heeft alles te bieden om even tot rust te komen. Het is een prachtig kasteel omringd door eindeloze wijngaarden. Lekker tafelen met fromage, pain en natuurlijke de beste biologische vin, mooie wandel -en looproutes in de Loirevallei en natuurlijk voor wie daar zin in heeft, leuk werken op het veld met de lokale wijnboeren, die je alles over de biologische wijnteelt kunnen vertellen.Kortom, een project met een mooie toekomstLa vie en Rosé;)

Een verblijf op château de Minière is een echte aanrader: hetzij om kennis te maken met de lekkere Loirewijnen, hetzij om te genieten van de prachtige landelijke omgeving aan de Loire, hetzij om te proeven van de warme ontvangst van gastvrouw Kathleen Van Den Berghe. Mooi ingericht oud wijnkasteeltje met respect voor de authentieke materialen. wijnproeverij mogelijk. Tal van nevenaktiviteiten zoals boottocht op de Loire, fietsroutes, ontdekking van lokale bistro's, boule de fort, ... Lekkere keuken, lekkere 'huis'wijnen!