Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 AFKAT_2025 for the fossilized oysters —

for the fossilized oysters — exogyres — embedded in its Kimmeridgian limestone soils

The Saar is Riesling's cold edge

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

but it sure tastes Puligny-esque to us

and no instructions beyond cold

Les Athletes du Vin Touraine Sauvignon 2024 AFKAT_2025 for the fossilized oysters —Sancerre 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