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% 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...

100% Cabernet Franc. The legendary Croix Boissée vineyard is in Cravant, above the winery, on a south-exposed slope overlooking the Vienne River. The Baudry parcels total 3.2 hectares, 2 of Cab Franc and 1.2 of Chenin, planted on clay soils rich in white tuffeau (soft limestone) and iron. The...

100% Cabernet Franc. Close to the town of Chinon, Clos Guillot is a hillside vineyard with south-southwest exposure with sticky clay soils rich in yellow tuffeau (the soft local limestone) and iron. The vines were planted between 1993 and 2000.  The farming is certified-organic. All vineyard work,...

90% Côt/10% Gamay. La Guerrerie is an estate parcel named in reference to its history as a battlefield in the Hundred Years' War. It is a flat, clay-rich site co-planted with Côt, aka Malbec, and Gamay in the 1980's. The Puzelats farm it organically and harvest it by hand. Typical of Tue-Boeuf reds...

Three parcels of Malbec aka Côt: 25 years old; 60 years old; 100+ years old. Vinified & aged in tank, bottled unfiltered.