TECHNICAL INFO

Varietal/Blend:  100% Cabernet Franc

ABV:  14.06%

Vineyard:  La Singulière comes from a single Picasses parcel named Vaux, with 40-year-old vines that are certified organic and on limestone-rich clay soils like all of their Picasses holding. The vineyard is certified organic, and the yield is kept to 35hl/ha.

Cellar: La Singulière starts 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-litre tonneaux on the newer side (from 1-5 years of previous use) vs. the quite old and large 30-hectoliter foudres for Picasses. After two years in wood, the wine is bottled without fining or filtering. 

CSPC:  123302

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TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  France

Region:  Chinon, Loire Valley

Appellation:  Chinon AOC

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Varietal/Blend:  100% Cabernet Franc

Fermentation:  Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in old oak puncheons.

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Vineyard & Vine Age:  Bull Swamp and Manilla vineyards in Baw Baw Shire. The vines were planted in 1961 and and 1964 respectively.

ABV:  14.06%

Produced Cases:  50

CSPC:  123302