Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 SF Chronicle with orchard and exotic fruit

with orchard and exotic fruit and that classic Alto Adige snap of acidity

heroic viticulture is not a marketing phrase here

A magnum to pull for a holiday table

Made mostly from the indigenous Hondarrabi Zuri grape

flinty streak running under the citrus and stone fruit

Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 SF Chronicle with orchard and exotic fruitSancerre 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