Olga Raffault - Chinon Les Picasses 2018
Price: $29.99
Producer | Olga Raffault |
Country | France |
Region | Loire Valley |
Varietal | Cabernet Franc |
Vintage | 2018 |
Sku | 34690 |
Olga Raffault Description
This is truly the benchmark of Chinon and a delicious, savory 100% Cabernet Franc. Pencil shavings and wet grass dominate the nose, and the palate balances cherry fruit with herbs and earth. Organic farming. Matching it with dinner? Things about pork chops and luxuriously adorned mashed potatoes with mushrooms and garlic or duck with root vegetables and cranberries.
Les Picasses is the most famous Chinon lieu-dit, close to the village of Beaumont-En-Vron on the north bank of the Vienne River. It is a slope with full southern exposure and chalky clay-limestone soils. Raffault's mid-slope vines are at least 50 years old and are worked organically and harvested by hand. The fruit is destemmed with the berries left whole; they are fermented with indigenous yeasts in tank with a maceration of 25-30 days. The wine is aged for one to two years in 30-hectoliter oak and chestnut foudres; it is then aged in bottle for several years before release.