Domaine Olga Raffault
2021 Chinon AOC Le Champ-Chenin
The nose offers orange pith and fine mineral notes suggestive of powdered chalk. The palate is delicate to start, before firming up in the middle with a rich core of powdered orange zest, white pepper, lemon peel, canned peaches and meringue. A wine that will only appreciate in the cellar and only benefits from a good decant at this age. Best enjoyed at 8-10ºC.
Region: Chinon, Loire Valley
Appellation: Chinon AOC
Varietal/Blend: 100% Chenin Blanc
ABV: 12.83%
Vineyard & Vine Age: Like all of the family’s vines, these are organically tended and harvested by hand. The harvest was quite late in 2021, from October 4th to 5th, with a yield of just 35 hl/ha.
Cellar: The fruit is ever so gently direct-pressed whole bunch in a pneumatic press. The juice is then fermented dry with indigenous yeasts at 20ºC, then aged on the lees without malolactic fermentation and with occasional stirring. Bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration and a minimal SO2 addition. Its production is quite small.
CSPC: 123295
Winemakers Note: []
What the Critics are saying: 2018: "The 2018 Chinon Blanc “Champ-Chenin” from Domaine Raffault is really an outstanding bottle of young, bone dry Chenin Blanc. The wine comes in at 12.5 percent alcohol and possess a nervosité on the palate that is really delightful. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a mix of green apple, quince, a lovely base of chalky soil, beeswax, spring flowers and a dollop of upper register lanolin. On the palate the wine is vibrant, full-bodied, focused and racy, with a superb core of fruit, excellent mineral drive and a long, nascently complex and impeccably balanced finish. Great juice. 2021-2045." 94pts, John Gilman, View From The Cellar, May-June 2021
Region: Chinon, Loire Valley
Appellation: Chinon AOC
The nose offers orange pith and fine mineral notes suggestive of powdered chalk. The palate is delicate to start, before firming up in the middle with a rich core of powdered orange zest, white pepper, lemon peel, canned peaches and meringue. A wine that will only appreciate in the cellar and only benefits from a good decant at this age. Best enjoyed at 8-10ºC.
TECHNICAL INFO
Varietal/Blend: 100% Chenin Blanc
ABV: 12.83%
Vineyard: Like all of the family’s vines, these are organically tended and harvested by hand. The harvest was quite late in 2021, from October 4th to 5th, with a yield of just 35 hl/ha.
Cellar: The fruit is ever so gently direct-pressed whole bunch in a pneumatic press. The juice is then fermented dry with indigenous yeasts at 20ºC, then aged on the lees without malolactic fermentation and with occasional stirring. Bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration and a minimal SO2 addition. Its production is quite small.
CSPC: 123295
Winemakers Note: []
What the Critics are saying: 2018: "The 2018 Chinon Blanc “Champ-Chenin” from Domaine Raffault is really an outstanding bottle of young, bone dry Chenin Blanc. The wine comes in at 12.5 percent alcohol and possess a nervosité on the palate that is really delightful. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a mix of green apple, quince, a lovely base of chalky soil, beeswax, spring flowers and a dollop of upper register lanolin. On the palate the wine is vibrant, full-bodied, focused and racy, with a superb core of fruit, excellent mineral drive and a long, nascently complex and impeccably balanced finish. Great juice. 2021-2045." 94pts, John Gilman, View From The Cellar, May-June 2021
Giovanni Autuori
Calgary + Alberta South
T: 403-971-1898
E: giovanni@vinoalvino.ca
Joe Gurba
Edmonton + Alberta North
T: 780-203-5284
E: joeg@vinoalvino.ca
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TECHNICAL INFO
Country: France
Region: Chinon, Loire Valley
Appellation: Chinon AOC
Climate:
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Varietal/Blend: 100% Chenin Blanc
Fermentation: Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in old oak puncheons.
Ageing:
Vineyard & Vine Age: Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.
ABV: 12.83%
Produced Cases: 50
CSPC: 123295
Calgary + Alberta South
Andrew Stewart
403-604-0408
andrew@vinoalvino.ca
Edmonton + Alberta North
Joe Gurba
780-203-5284
joe@vinoalvino.ca
Saskatoon + Saskatchewan South
Kerrie Gavin
306-290-0277
kerrie@vinoalvino.ca
