What is science? Science is the concerted human effort to understand, or to understand better, the history of the natural world and how the natural world works, with observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding 1.
The Loire Valley is France's most diverse wine region, producing exemplary wines in every style.
There are many lovely gardens in the Loire Valley which, by and large, I'm happy to leave to the green-fingered. But Villandry, by the River Cher, is something else. The gardens are vast, terraced and laid out with geometric formality, as if created with set-squares and compasses rather than spades.