Olga Raffault Chinon Chenin Des Picasses Blanc 2020 750ml

100% Chenin Blanc. Raffault planted Chenin under ten years ago on the special clay-limestone terroir of the Les Picasses hills and bottled it as "Chenin de Picasses" for this first time in the 2020 vintage (note: in France the wine bears a different label and name, "L'Or d'Olga"). The farming is organic and the harvest is manual. The whole clusters are gently pressed and the must settled overnight. Fermentation takes place spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in 500-liter, second-and-third-use demi-muids and finishes dry; the wine does not go through malolactic fermentation and is aged on its fine lees for a year in the same barrels. It clarifies naturally during aging and is bottled without filtration.