Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2020 spirits-template The Sulcis region is dominated

The Sulcis region is dominated by Carignano

Moulin-a-Vent is the cru with the most muscle

and 777 clones

the estate bottled its 100% Cabernet under the Cask Cabernet designation — a wink to the great mid-century Inglenook Cask bottlings

roughly half the blend

Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2020 spirits-template The Sulcis region is dominatedLes Picasses is the flagship single vineyard Cabernet Franc from Olga Raffault, one of Chinon's most quietly legendary multi generational estates. The mid slope vines on south facing chalky clay limestone are over fifty years old, farmed organically, and the wine is aged for two to three years in large foudres of oak and chestnut (typically 30 50 hectoliters) before further bottle age. The 2020 shows the structured, slow evolving profile Picasses is