Olga Raffault - Chinon Rosé 2024 750 ML (12% ABV)
100% Cabernet Franc. Raffault uses 50% certified-organic estate fruit (from sandy, gravelly, flat parcels along the Vienne) and sources the other 50% from a neighboring grower in conversion to organic farming. All of the wine is made from hand-harvested fruit in the Raffault cellar. Half of the fruit is pressed directly as whole clusters and the other half is saignée. The fermentation takes place spontaneously with native yeasts in stainless steel tanks. The wine does not go through malolactic fermentation and is aged in tank as well. It is bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration in the spring following the vintage.
another lovely example ... a pale salmon color and offers up a lovely bouquet of watermelon, blood orange, rose petals, a nice, delicate touch of spice tones and chalky earth. On the palate the wine is bright and focused, with lovely depth of fruit, good soil signature, sound framing acids and a long, well balanced and complex finish. A fine bottle of Rosé
The wine of Chinon Rosé is made from a bleeding performed 8 to 15 hours after maceration of the cuvée from sandy-gravelly soil. The fermentation starts slowly and is maintained at 20 ° C in order to extract all the aromatic potential. Depending on the vintage, this rosé is dry to tender and amplifies all its fruity on its fine lie to be tasted from its first youth guaranteeing a great freshness, accompanied by salads, meats and various dishes of spring and summer to a temperature between 8 and 10 ° C.
Today, Olga's granddaughter, Sylvie Raffault and her husband Eric de la Vigerie have taken over and intend to maintain the good recipes of the past, a real family patrimony, by combining modernity and tradition with the efficiency of a always attentive to the requirements of a national and international clientele.
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