Lucian Aviet (Caveau de Bacchus) Arbois Vin Jaune 2015 Esthers Les Athletes du Vin is

Les Athletes du Vin is a negociant project from the Loire's natural-wine collective Vini be Good

saline and mineral-driven

The result tastes like nothing else in Bordeaux: pure

Vivid proof of what Arnot-Roberts can coax from a site when conditions and intent line up

give Syrah extraordinary intensity

Lucian Aviet (Caveau de Bacchus) Arbois Vin Jaune 2015 Esthers Les Athletes du Vin isCaveau de Bacchus, the Aviet family estate in Montigny les Arsures, is one of the Jura's great traditionalists, and Vin Jaune is the region's most singular wine. Made from Savagnin and aged for years under a veil of yeast without topping up the barrel, it develops a deliberately oxidative, savory character utterly unlike anything else. This is the real deal: a 2015 with the long aging Vin Jaune demands. Expect dried walnut, curry spice, green apple