Editing Loire Valley (section)

==Wine==
{{Main|Loire Valley (wine)}}
[[File:Vineyard in the Loire Valley.jpg|left|thumb|300 px|Vineyards in the Loire Valley]]
The [[Loire Valley (wine)|Loire Valley wine region]]<ref>[http://www.vinsdeloire.fr/uploads/files/GP%20-%20goodies/carte_AOC_service_communication2.pdf Vineyard in the Loire Valley] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531110746/http://www.vinsdeloire.fr/uploads/files/GP%20-%20goodies/carte_AOC_service_communication2.pdf |date=2012-05-31 }}, map.</ref> is one of the world's most well-known areas of wine production and includes several [[French wine]] [[Wine region|regions]] situated along the river from the [[Muscadet]] region on the [[Atlantic]] coast to the [[List of wine producing regions|regions]] of [[Sancerre (wine)|Sancerre]] and [[Pouilly-Fumé]] just southeast of the city of [[Orléans]] in north central France. Loire wines tend to exhibit a characteristic [[fruit (wine)|fruitiness]] with fresh, crisp flavors.<ref name="Fallis pg 168-176">C. Fallis, editor ''The Encyclopedic Atlas of Wine'' pg 168-176 Global Book Publishing 2006 {{ISBN|1-74048-050-3}}</ref>