 Like most of the Loire, the main red grape of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil is Cabernet franc (known locally as "Breton") with Cabernet Sauvignon accounting for an increasing amount of plantings.Vineyards are densely planted with 5000 grapevines per hectare.Both Cabernet varieties are usually trained to the "guyot simple" system with one long cane pruned to seven or eight buds each winter.