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...

100% Cabernet Franc, this is part of Ampeleia's 'Monovarietali' project, highlighting single varieties and single vineyards whose special characteristics precluded them from blending in other wines. The grapes are sourced from a single parcel called "Vigna all'Asina," This vineyard sits at 500...

100% Cabernet Franc. 2017 is the first vintage of this new Chinon bottling. It is a combination of estate fruit and purchased fruit, a first for Raffault and a response to the devastating vintage conditions. The grapes come from flat, sandy, gravelly sites along the Vienne and Loire rivers,...

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. 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, the combination resulting in fully ripened, structured wines. Raffault's...

100% Cabernet Franc. From sandy, stony, alluvial soils on flat sites along the Vienne River. 2/3 direct-press, 1/3 saignée. Fermented with native yeasts and aged in stainless steel tank with no ML. Snappy, fresh, herbal and berry-flavored.  

100% Cabernet Franc. Pet-nat from estate fruit.

52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Cabernet Franc, 21% Merlot from Two Blondes and Champoux vineyards, aged 11 months in neutral French oak.

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-...