Variety: Cabernet Franc
Location: Loire Valley, FR
Alcohol: 13%
An age-worthy Cab Franc with spicy red berry fruit, cedar, tobacco and floral notes. Fine tannins, bright acidity and minerality offer structure yet approachability.
Fermented in concrete and is aged for 10 months in new foudre.
At 30 years of age, the vines at Haute Olive are located on the south-southwest hillside. A light clay topsoil sits atop a limestone subsoil mixed with upper Turonian also known as millarge (yellow limestone). Certified organic.