Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 DISCOUNTABLE who runs the place today

who runs the place today

working organically across a patchwork of limestone-rich sites

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Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 DISCOUNTABLE who runs the place todayLes Picasses is one of the Loire's great vineyards, and Olga Raffault is the domaine that proved it. A south facing slope of clay over limestone tuffeau, it gives Cabernet Franc everything it needs at once: sun for ripeness, drainage, clay for flesh, chalk for structure. Raffault's mid slope vines are over fifty years old, farmed organically and fermented with indigenous yeast, then aged for years in big oak and chestnut foudres before more time in