Loire Valley

Gardien de Bulles

Athlètes du Vin

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Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Touraine

Variety

100% Chenin Blanc

Fun Loire fizz rounds out the showstoppers at Athlètes du Vin. Brut white wine, fine bubble with notes of peach and exotic fruits.

Viticulture

Soil type

Turronian tuffeau and flint clay soils

Vine age50 years old

Vinification

Vinfied in the traditional method for one year; no liquor added to the disgorging.

ElevageAged on slats for 24 months

More about
the producer

Athlètes du Vin

Founded in 1999

Négociant hectares

Les Athlètes du Vin is a négociant project focused on 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.