2018  

Extremely Limited Production. Certified Organic & Biodynamic, from a Chenin Blanc parcel named "Pascaline" planted in 2014 on Orthogneiss soils. Aged 10-12 months on the lees in amphora. Nofining, no filtration, no sulfur...just pure chenin! ---- A complex and powerful Chenin with real energy and focus. Matris means "mother" in latin -- a lovely nod to the pedigree of the Chenin grape in Orthogneiss terroirs. Don't sleep on this wine as it won't stick around for long! ---- "The 2018 Chenin Blanc Matris emerges from relatively young Chenin Blanc vines, planted in 2014. It was fermented in underground concrete tanks and aged 10 to 12 months in amphora. The nose is a tropical bounty. In the mouth, there’s pineapple and more pineapple: fresh, then baked, then grilled, then dipped in soy sauce. All balanced by cool minerality and a bit saline at the finish. Unique and fascinating." - Vinous

2020  Chinon Blanc

100% Chenin Blanc. Raffault planted Chenin under ten years ago on the special clay-limestone terroir of the Les Picasses hills and bottled it as "Chenin de Picasses" for this first time in the 2020 vintage (note: in France the wine bears a different label and name, "L'Or d'Olga"). The farming is organic and the harvest is manual. The whole clusters are gently pressed and the must settled overnight. Fermentation takes place spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in 500-liter, second-and-third-use demi-muids and finishes dry; the wine does not go through malolactic fermentation and is aged on its fine lees for a year in the same barrels. It clarifies naturally during aging and is bottled without filtration.

2021  Chenin Blanc & Palomino

"Eben Sadie describes this isolated, sand dune-covered site as "the vineyard of Mad Max" and I know what he means. Pale and salty, the resulting wine is a brilliant, cool climate, wind-buffeted cuvée of Chenin Blanc and Palomino that has limestone freshness and intensity, kelp, oyster shell and sourdough flavours and volcanic intensity." - 97pts, Tim Atkin MW