Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 MENU austere wines the appellation built

austere wines the appellation built its reputation on

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Les Fouchardes comes from a single parcel of red clay over schist

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Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 MENU austere wines the appellation builtSancerre 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