2015 Olga Raffault Chinon 'La Singuliere', Loire Valley, France Plouzeau mountain character

mountain character

with a full southern exposure and soil of schist and mica schist yielding on avarage only 20hl/ha

a long maceration

Whole bunch maceration until 15 days

They pulled the vines after the 2006 vintage to replant the vineyard to Chardonnay

2015 Olga Raffault Chinon 'La Singuliere', Loire Valley, France Plouzeau mountain character100% Cabernet Franc. "La Singulire" comes from a single Picasses parcel named Vaux, with 40 year old vines that are certified organic and on limestone rich clay soils like all of their Picasses holding. The yield is kept to 35hl ha. The wine starts out being made identically to the Picasses bottling: the bunches are destemmed with the berries left whole and fermented with indigenous yeasts in tank; the maceration is similar at about a month. La