100% Cabernet Franc. Like the more renowned Les Picasses, Les Peuilles is a lieu-dit close to the village of Beaumont-En-Véron, but it is to the south of town, closer to the Vienne river. It is a plateau rather than a hillside and features soils of clay and flint rather than limestone. The fruit is...

100% Chenin Blanc. From a plot of young vines (under 10 years old) planted by the Raffault family at the top of the Les Picasses hill on its limestone-rich clay soils. The farming is certified-organic and the harvest is manual. The whole clusters are gently pressed and the must settled overnight....

100% Cabernet Franc. Les Picasses is the most famous Chinon lieu-dit, close to the village of Beaumont-En-Véron on the north bank of the Vienne River. It is a slope with full southern exposure and chalky clay-limestone soils. Raffault's mid-slope vines are at least 50 years old and are worked...