Loire Valley

Chinon

Athlètes du Vin

Type

Red Wine

Appelation

Chinon

Variety

Cabernet Franc

A crisp and fruity Chinon, with delightful red fruit aromas. A wellstructured wine with a lingering finish

Viticulture

Vineyard name

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Soil type

Clay, limestone and flint selected from several varying sites

Vines planted in25 years

Vinification

Fermentation in concrete tanks for 3 weeks.

ElevageMaturation in oak vats (60 hectolitres in size) during 6 months

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Additional info

Total production average120,000 bottles

UPC Code Bottle3760087930993

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More about
the producer

Athlètes du Vin

Founded in 1999

négociant hectares

Les Athlètes du Vin is a négociant project focused on producing typical, value-driven wines from the Loire Valley. The idea was conceived by a group of French winemakers called Vini Be Good, who work together to distribute their wines across France. The wines are vinified by various members of the Vini Be Good network using their own grapes or grapes purchased from friends and neighbors in the Loire. We are proud to present these wines made by their friends and family, as several of the cuvées are vinified by Gérard Vallée, brother of Mathieu Vallée from Château Yvonne.

The labels for Les Athlètes du Vin are drawings by French artist, illustrator, and cartoonist Michel Tolmer, who has been the unofficial lead artist of the French natural wine movement since the 1990s.