Loire Valley

Menetou-Salon Rouge

Athlètes du Vin

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Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Variety

Pinot Noir

The mouth is full, dominated by ripe red fruit. Beautiful woody and slightly spicy notes linger on the palate.

Viticulture

Soil type

Clay and limestone

Vine age15 years

Vinification

Hand picked and fermented for 3 weeks with a third of the volume as a whole bunch. Fermentation using wild yeasts, with ageing on lees of which two thirds is done in thermo-regulated stainless steel tanks and one third in 400L wooden barrels.

ElevageAgeing in barrel and temperature controlled stainless steel tanks

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.