Vouvray (wine) often the last in France to be completed, potentially lasting until November. When sweet and botrytized wine are being produced, the harvest is often very labor-intensive, involving successive "tries" or passages through the vineyards with harvesters hand-picking only the ripest berries. Vouvray produces more than a million cases of wine a year. The traditional style of winemaking in Vouvray is a minimalist approach, often using neutral fermentation vessel such as stainless steel and not submitting the wine to malolactic fermentation. While some winemakers are experimenting with oak, very few wines are made with new oak. Vouvrays are usually bottled early
French frigate Loire (1796) a crew of 50 men. "Loire" had only three men slightly wounded. The captured Spanish crew had lost 19 of their 50 men, mostly killed by pike and sword; some however jumped overboard. On 4 June 1805 "Loire" made an attack on Muros. Two French privateer vessels were discovered lying in the bay, one of them being , pierced for 26 guns, 12 and 9-pounders, although not having them on board. A landing party of 50 men from "Loire" under first lieutenant James Lucas Yeo stormed the town's fort, which was firing its twelve 18-pounder guns at "Loire". The landing