The Domaine Olivier of Loire Valley

Domaine Olivier
The winery offers 21 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is ranked in the top 2779 of the estates of Loire Valley.
It is located in Loire Valley

The Domaine Olivier is one of the best wineries to follow in Vallée de la Loire.. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Loire Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Domaine Olivier wines

Looking for the best Domaine Olivier wines in Loire Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Domaine Olivier wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Domaine Olivier wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Domaine Olivier

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Domaine Olivier

How Domaine Olivier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, lean fish or fruity desserts such as recipes of phad thai (thai style fried noodles), papillote of fish with cumin onions or rice with milk.

The best vintages in the white wines of Domaine Olivier

  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Domaine Olivier.

  • Chenin Blanc
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Loire Valley

The Loire Valley is a key wine region in western France. It follows the course of the Loire River on its Long journey through the heart of France, from the inland hills of the Auvergne to the plains of the French Atlantic coast near Nantes (Muscadet country). Important in terms of quantity and quality, the region produces large quantities (about 4 million h/l each year) of everyday wines, as well as some of France's greatest wines. Diversity is another of the region's major assets; the styles of wine produced here range from the light, tangy Muscadet to the Sweet, honeyed Bonnezeaux, the Sparkling whites of Vouvray and the juicy, Tannic reds of Chinon and Saumur.

It's quite telling that this brief overview of the region's wines doesn't even mention the Loire Valley's two most famous wines - Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume. White wines are clearly the strong point of the Loire Valley and represent the vast majority of production. A significant proportion of these are produced under PGI appellations, most commonly the IGP Loire (formerly Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France), which covers the whole region. The main white Grape varieties used for the production of white wines in the Loire Valley are Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and, more popular than the traditional, Chardonnay.

The top red wines of Domaine Olivier

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Domaine Olivier

How Domaine Olivier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of monkfish (anglerfish) à la sétoise, baked bread (tomato, mushroom, ham, cheese) or stuffed rabbit in the oven.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Domaine Olivier

On the nose the red wine of Domaine Olivier. often reveals types of flavors of earth, spices or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of cherry, microbio or red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Domaine Olivier

  • 2019With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.67/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.57/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.49/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.42/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Domaine Olivier.

  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Chenin blanc

It most certainly originates from the Anjou region and is registered in the official catalogue of wine grape varieties on the A1 list. It can also be found in South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Chile, the United States (California), New Zealand, etc. It is said to be a descendant of Savagnin and to have sauvignonasse as its second parent (Jean-Michel Boursiquot 2019). On the other hand, Chenin blanc is the half-brother of verdelho and sauvignon blanc and is the father of colombard.

The top pink wines of Domaine Olivier

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Domaine Olivier

How Domaine Olivier wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fast and, alsatian sauerkraut or rabbit italian style.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Domaine Olivier.

  • Cabernet Franc

The word of the wine: Apyrene

Seedless grape.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Domaine Olivier

Planning a wine route in the of Loire Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Domaine Olivier.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Domaine Olivier and wines from the region

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

In 2007, Frenchman Frédéric Albert founded the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) with the goal of decarbonising the wine industry. The firm managed to sail its 50m-vessel four times from France to Ireland, England and Canada, before going into liquidation as a consequence of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite the failure, Albert’s pioneering project was a sign for things to come. In 2013, Le Havre-based TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) followed in CTMV’s footsteps sailing some 3 ...

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

Ornellaia Vendemmia d’Artista 2019 auction raises more than $300,000

To showcase the project’s capacity to make art more accessible, the iconic Tuscan winery hosted a festive gathering at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City to announce the results of the Vendemmia d’Artista 2019 ‘Il Vigore’ auction. Coordinated by Sotheby’s, the online auction raised £267,000 for the museum’s Mind’s Eye programme, which helps blind and low-vision people experience art using all the senses. Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg were ...

The word of the wine: Apyrene

Seedless grape.