100% Cabernet Franc. Les Barnabés stands apart from Raffault's other main sites, Les Picasses and Les Peuilles, still in the Véron region but far to the west and downhill on a plain of alluvial soils near the Loire River. The sandy, gravelly site yields a lighter style of Cabernet Franc more...
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 Grézeaux vines are the Baudry’s oldest, going back as far as 75 years. They are on a flat site of gravelly sand with a touch of clay near the Vienne River and the winery, close to the Les Granges vineyard. The farming is certified-organic. All vineyard work, including...
100% Cabernet Franc. Les Granges comes from 8 ha. of vines lying along the Vienne River in Cravant near the winery. They are around 20 years old now and planted on alluvial soils of gravel and sand with zero clay, which gives rise to a simple, fresh style of Chinon. The farming is certified-organic...
100% Cabernet Franc. The Grézeaux vines are the Baudry’s oldest, having been planted by Bernard B. in 1975. They lie on a flat, sandy site near the Vienne River in Cravant, very near the winery and the Les Granges vineyard. The key difference between the two sites is the presence of more clay and...
100% Cabernet Franc. 2020 was the first bottling of this particular one-hectare plot of 15-year-old vines, Mollières, which previously was blended into another cuvée. Mollières lies in the extreme west of Chinon, at the highest hillside location of any of Baudry's vines. It is a windy, well-exposed...
