Food destinations within easy reach of Nantes, worth the early start.
Food destinations within easy reach of Nantes, worth the train, the rental car or the early start.
Famous for Muscadet cellars, a wooden market hall and a craft brewpub
Clisson sits half an hour up the tram-train line from Nantes, an Italianate town of Muscadet cellars, a wooden market hall and the Hellcity brewpub.
Tram-train Nantes to Clisson, one an hour
Famous for Musée du Vignoble Nantais and Muscadet tasting
Le Pallet, a tram-train stop south of Nantes, holds the Musée du Vignoble Nantais, where the galleries on Muscadet end in a guided tasting session.
Tram-train from Nantes, Le Pallet stop
Famous for Fouace baking and Muscadet Sèvre et Maine
La Haie-Fouassière is the first vineyard stop out of Nantes, a village that lent its name to the fouace and throws a Muscadet weekend each autumn.
Tram-train from Nantes, La Haie-Fouassière stop
Famous for Cellar tastings at Château du Bois-Huaut
Gorges, on the Nantes to Clisson tram-train, is where Château du Bois-Huaut pours Muscadet and thirteen other grape varieties with the winemaker.
Tram-train from Nantes, Gorges stop
Famous for Salt marshes, fleur de sel and guided paludier walks
Guérande lies 80 km west of Nantes, 2,000 hectares of salt pans worked by paludiers who hand-rake fleur de sel and the coarser grey sea salt.
Train from Nantes to La Baule in under an hour, then bus
Famous for Covered market, quayside fishmongers and the criée
Le Croisic closes the Guérande peninsula west of Nantes, with 27 food traders under its halles and fishmongers selling straight off the criée.
Train from Nantes to La Baule in under an hour, then TER on
Famous for Quayside terraces in a painted fishermen's village
Trentemoult in Rezé faces Nantes across the Loire, a painted old fishing village whose narrow alleys open onto lively quayside terraces at dusk.
Navibus Loire from Gare Maritime to Trentemoult Roquios
Guided tour · 2 hours
Discover Muscadet on a unique sensory journey in Nantes, followed by a tasting of five wines (or fruit juices) in a friendly venue dedicated to the local terroir.
Viator · 2 h
Discover the world of wine tasting by the glass with the winemaker in a historic winery. You can visit the vineyards, cellars and discover the world of oenology with ...
Day trip · 4 hours
In a van, a guided discovery of the exceptional terroirs of the Nantes vineyards, with a focus on organic and biodynamic wines, produced with respect for nature and tr...
