Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 CALIOTHER and a sense of place

and a sense of place you can actually taste

A glimpse of how the domaine's village wines age - which is to say

the Beaumont family works old vines planted back in 1974

with a clarity that makes it feel almost weightless

Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 CALIOTHER and a sense of placeLes 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