Pays de la Loire gathers the western half of the Loire vineyard: Nantes' Muscadet, Anjou-Saumur and its chenins, the Vendée fiefs and the Sarthe fringe of the Coteaux du Loir. This regional page orders these markets and links to the departmental analyses.
Two dynamics dominate: Muscadet's renaissance through its communal crus, and the worldwide chenin wave carrying Anjou — two reasons the region now concentrates the Loire Valley's finest value trajectories.
Loire-Atlantique offers volume and communal crus; Maine-et-Loire the basin's most complete market, from the Layon to Saumur-Champigny; the Vendée its growing oceanic fiefs; the Sarthe and Mayenne a few confidential slopes of the Loir and beyond.
The Loire's west couples land accessibility with urban outlets (Nantes, Angers) — the pairing that explains the influx of recent settlers, local and international alike.
Vine sales in Pays de la Loire published in the DVF registry draw the following path for vineyard land in Pays de la Loire:
Year | Sales | Average price (€/ha) | Median price (€/ha) |
2020* | 68 | 22,059 | 11,553 |
2021 | 145 | 18,718 | 11,100 |
2022 | 140 | 17,408 | 12,575 |
2023 | 144 | 19,803 | 11,379 |
2024 | 175 | 17,645 | 11,996 |
2025 | 126 | 20,247 | 12,200 |
Source: French DVF land registry, vine sales. *2020: second half only.
From 2021 to 2025, the median value rose (+10%).
To extend the analysis beyond this area, see our observatory of vineyard prices in France.
Pick your department for appellation details and listings; the vineyard's eastern half (Touraine, Centre-Loire) has pages of its own.
See the Loire Valley vineyard, Loire-Atlantique and Maine-et-Loire.
