Olga Raffault Les Picasses 2013

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Region

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Vintage
2013

Size
750ML

Features
Green Wine

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Raffault’s 'les Picasses' often has a light garnet color belying the depth of fruit flavor and complexity. Its style is rustic and quite earthy, with hints of orange zest and deep, dark cherry flavor. The tannins are soft, but present, and the mineral complexity in the finish is superb.

Professional Ratings

  • 93

    Colored like an Alpine Pinot Noir (bright purple), the 2013 Chinon Les Picasses opens with a deep, clear, fresh and intense, well-concentrated and slightly toasty red and black fruit aroma on the nose that is less rich, ripe and deep compared to 2014 but spicy, pure and characterful. The palate is silky, sweet and elegant, perfectly balanced, showing very fine and stimulating, finessed and salty acidity along with remarkably fine tannins. The finish is tight and concentrated and intensely aromatic and floral yet always pure, fine and fresh, with red fruit and fleshy cherry flavors. A great drinking pleasure. This is indeed an excellent wine from a difficult vintage, and it has developed so well after I first encountered it three years ago. To be honest, I love this 2013.

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Olga Raffault

Olga Raffault

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Olga Raffault, France
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Since Olga's death a few years ago, Domaine Olga Raffault is currently run by her granddaughter Sylvie and her husband Eric de la Vigerie.

The estate has terrific plots of land in the Savigny-en-Véron district hard by the Vienne riverbanks. The ‘les Picasses’ vineyard stands out from the rest: old vines of 50-ish years on a fairly steep slope from the riverbank that is alluvial clay with a chalk limestone base. The fruit is particularly expressive of dark fruits of cassis and dark cherries with a terrific mineral content and good acidity for structure.

The winemaking is most traditional. The grapes are, of course, handpicked and fermented in stainless-steel. The wines are then aged in larger, neutral oak and sometimes chestnut - a traditional barrel wood in the region

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Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.

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An important red wine appellation in the Touraine district of the Loire, Chinon produces fanciful, light-bodied reds from the Cabernet Franc grape. Chinon also makes charming rosés from the same grape as well as white wines from Chenin blanc. But the reds give the area its fame. Often scented with fresh herbs, black tea and violets, Chinon reds show a lovely combination of fruit and acidity. However, styles have become more concentrated and ripe in recent years from improvements in vineyard management. Modern methods include planting grass between vineyard rows, using higher trellises and deleafing to increase sunlight to berries and therefore improve ripening. Even still, red Chinon is intended to be a light to medium bodied, refreshing wine to be enjoyed in its youth.

Fuller-bodied Chinons come from vineyard sites on the clay and tuffeau limestone slopes, usually from the southern exposed slopes of Cravant-les-Coteaux, and the plateau above Beaumont. Lighter styled wines come from the sand and gravel vineyards near the Loire or Vienne Rivers with the most refined examples coming from the area around Panzoult

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