Loire Valley

Vin de France Grolleau

Athlètes du Vin

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Type

Red Wine

Appellation

Vin de France

Variety

Grolleau

Easy drinking, light and spicy. A wine to be drunk while still young; within two years

Viticulture

Soil type

Silty clay on blue schist with rocky slate subsoil

Vine age60 years

Vineyard size4 ha

Vinification

Carbonic maceration and fermentation in stainless steel tanks

ElevageAging in concrete tanks during 6 months

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Additional info

Total production average80,000 bottles

UPC Code Bottle3760087931778

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.