Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 Muscadelle Light and crisp

Light and crisp

The palate brings the same clean-cut citrus flavors of zesty lime

and the Heimann family in the southern-Hungarian appellation of Szekszard has been working for generations to rescue it from the brink of Communist-state-sponsered eradication

Nose of apple sauce

The wine shows yellow apples and lemons

Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses 2008 Muscadelle Light and crisp93 Points Wine Advocate "The 2008 Chinon Les Picasses is an authentic representative of the vintage as well as of the domain. The 2008 has a coolish, pure and spicy but concentrated nose with a Pinot like expression of Cab Franc that comes across as pulpy but less juicy. On the palate, this is a textbook Loire Cabernet: sweet, intense and, believe me, perfectly ripe and balanced but still coolish, precise and finessed with delicate but lingering