Olga Raffault, Chinon Les Picasses (Library), 2009
A mature, cellar-released Chinon from one of the appellation's legendary names. Olga Raffault's Les Picasses comes from a south-facing slope of clay over limestone and tuffeau, one of the Loire's truly great Cabernet Franc sites, prized for wines that age for decades. The family farms organically, works with native yeasts and ages the wine for years in old foudres in a thoroughly traditional style. At well over fifteen years old, this 2009, a warm and generous Loire vintage, has evolved into a savory, secondary-driven wine with earth, leather and dried fruit replacing youthful brightness. This is what library aging is for, and Raffault is one of the rare estates that rewards it so handsomely.
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A mature, cellar-released Chinon from one of the appellation's legendary names. Olga Raffault's Les Picasses comes from a south-facing slope of clay over limestone and tuffeau, one of the Loire's truly great Cabernet Franc sites, prized for wines that age for decades. The family farms organically, works with native yeasts and ages the wine for years in old foudres in a thoroughly traditional style. At well over fifteen years old, this 2009, a warm and generous Loire vintage, has evolved into a savory, secondary-driven wine with earth, leather and dried fruit replacing youthful brightness. This is what library aging is for, and Raffault is one of the rare estates that rewards it so handsomely.
