Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 AFKAT_2025 with hints of smoke and

with hints of smoke and oak

and no instructions beyond cold

Thrilling for novices and Agave karwinskii heads alike

Sam Smith - formerly of Morgan - works the fruit with native ferments and whole clusters

and the wine to pour when you want someone to understand Friuli

Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 AFKAT_2025 with hints of smoke andSancerre 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