Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 CRV5 and easy to drink without

and easy to drink without being thin

After earning his PhD in terroir from the Paris Center of Agriculture

This unique wine presents classic Paolo Cortado aromas

It spends close to four years on its lees in the chalk cellars beneath Reims

silky mouthfeel combined with complex notes of leafy herbs

Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 CRV5 and easy to drink withoutLes 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