Les Athletes du Vin VdF Chardonnay 2024 PET-NAT with no oak to get

with no oak to get in the way of the chalk

and it is made with the same hands-off logic Diana Snowden Seysses brings back from her other job at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac

brown butter and lemon zest

cherries and gooseberries

Tencha and gyokuro provide intense aromas and depth of flavour with a wonderful sweetness that occurs naturally in the distillation of these superior teas

Les Athletes du Vin VdF Chardonnay 2024 PET-NAT with no oak to getLes Athletes du Vin is a negociant project from the Loire's natural wine collective Vini be Good, pooling organically farmed fruit from a roster of seriously good growers into honest, value driven bottlings (the cheeky Michel Tolmer label art is a tell). This Chardonnay is a fresh, unfussy take on the grape: clean stone fruit and citrus, no oak getting in the way, just easy Loire drinking. A weeknight white that punches above its weight.