Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 SF Chronicle Made mostly from the indigenous

Made mostly from the indigenous Hondarrabi Zuri grape

mineral forward Espadin

heroic viticulture is not a marketing phrase here

A magnum to pull for a holiday table

Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 SF Chronicle Made mostly from the indigenousSancerre 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