The hand harvested grapes are partially destemmed, crushed and fermented with whole clusters added back in open top fermenters for two to three weeks at cellar temperature.  The juice then remains on the gross lees for 10 to 11 months in old French oak barrels.

The fruit is sourced primarily from Agrelo, with thirty percent of the fruit coming from La Consulta. After a cool fermentation, the wine is aged for one year in thirty percent American and seventy percent French oak. To preserve the character of the fruit, the wine is then bottled with unfined and...

Unaged Cabernet Franc, bottled 3 months after the completion of primary and malolactic fermentation: bright, fresh, and the perfect match for everything grilled.

The vines, planted in the 1980's, are grown in the Pirque Vineyard in the Maipo at 700m elevation. An ancient riverbed lies beneath the vineyard, and the particular soild here give the Cabernet Franc gives the wine flavors of blue fruit and mint. Fermented naturally with manual punch-downs;...

100% Cabernet Franc. 2017 is the first vintage of this new Chinon bottling. It is a combination of Raffault estate and some purchased fruit, a first for Raffault, born of the devastating vintage conditions. It is made from similar sites and in a similar style as their Barnabés Chinon: meant to be...

100% Cabernet Franc. Croix Boissée is in Cravant, near the winery, on a south-exposed slope overlooking the Vienne. The Baudry plots total 3.1 hectares of low-yielding vines, ranging from 15 to 40 years old, on clay soils rich in white tuffeau (soft limestone) and iron. They are certified organic...

100% Cabernet Franc.. The Granges vines are an 8-hectare alluvial site along the Vienne River in Cravant, very near the winery, planted in 1985 and 1988 and farmed organically like the rest of the estate. The soil is all sand and pebbles, with little to no clay, so it drains well and yields a light...

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. The fruit for the rosé comes from several estate parcels on two different terroirs: the higher plateau with flinty clay soiils and valley/river level with sandy gravel soils. The vines are on the younger side, averaging 20 years old, and are farmed organically. The grapes are...

Half open-bin, half tank fermentation with manual punchdowns once or twice a day. Nothing added or subtracted in the process. The wine is blended and aged in stainless steel and bottled in between February and April of the following year. 96% Cabernet Franc, 4% Gamay. 900 cases produced.

85% Cabernet Franc/15% Pineau d'Aunis. Valérie Forgue's are planted on clay-limestone soils in the heart of the Cher valley of the Touraine region in the Loire Valley. She farms them organically (soon to be certified) and harvests them by hand. 2017 is the first vintage of the Glasting rosé, which...

100% Cabernet Franc. Only three of Pépière's 43 certifed-organic hectares of vines are planted to black grapes: Côt and Cabernet Franc (known locally as Breton). They are in the 10-hectare "home" vineyard in Clisson, where the rocky, granite-rich soils yield top-tier Melon de Bourgogne; the black...

70% Cabernet Franc/30% Cabernet Sauvignon.  In order to face the challenges of multiple frost-afflicted vintages in the Coteaux du Loir, the Nicolas family has expanded their cellar and begun a new line of négoce wines under the "Les Arches de Bellivière" label in the 2016 vintage. From a like-...

100% Cabernet Franc. Paul Filliatreau bought 6.5 hectares in the lieu-dit of Château Fouquet in the village of Brézé, 10 kilometers east of Saumur and only 100 meters outside of the Saumur-Champigny appellation. Parts of it had been abandoned, and Paul began replanting with massale cuttings from...

100% Cabernet Franc. From vines on clay-limestone soils in many different parcels, averaging 30 years old. The fruit is mostly hand-harvested, sorted in the cellar and fermented in stainless steel tank with natural yeasts, temperature control and a 10-to-14-day maceration. This entry-level Saumur-...