Domaine Filliatreau offers wine tasting inside the cliff face. Bottles of organic Saumur Chamipgny wines, some grown atop the nearby cliff, cost €8.60 to €30; the best vintages come from vieilles vignes (grapevines that are 50 to 80 years old). Situated off the D947.
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