Olga Raffault Chinon "La Singulière" 2014

La Singulière comes from Raffault's oldest vines in the famous Les Picasses lieu-dit, where Raffault farms organically and harvests by hand on these limestone-rich clay hills. The wine start out being made identically to the Picasses bottling: the bunches are destemmed with the berries left whole and fermented with indigenous yeasts in tank; the maceration is similar at about a month.

La Singulière is the only Raffault wine to be aged in smaller oak vessels, specifically 500-liter tonneaux on the newer side (from 1-7 years of previous use) vs. the quite old 30-hectoliter foudres for Picasses. After a couple of years in wood, the wine is bottled without fining or filtering and aged for another couple of years before release