Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 web-published muscular structure and deep cherry

muscular structure and deep cherry and black fruit intensity achieve balance

and a saline snap on the finish

Dominique Lafon's hand here is unmistakable: classic Meursault richness shaped by organic

Wines like this are the argument for taking Cava seriously again

and a lingering but pleasant bitterness on the finish

Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 web-published muscular structure and deep cherrySancerre gets the postcards, but Touraine grows Sauvignon Blanc just as convincingly and asks a great deal less for it. Les Athletes du Vin is a negociant project from the Loire collective Vini Be Good, which gathers organically farmed fruit from a roster of grower friends and bottles it plainly and honestly, Michel Tolmer's artwork included. This is the classic Loire take: dry, crisp, mineral, no oak, nothing showing off. A house white in the truest