Community Tasting Notes 6

• UrbanGrill Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 28, 2023 - A really good bottle.

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• vintage_whine wrote:

  October 18, 2022 - Okay, the style is exacerbated by the vintage here, showing in brett and diminished acidity/freshness, it’s well made the tannins have nice structure and the oak is integrated though more present than in other wines from this domaine. The one sticking point is the fruit here, it’s noticeably riper and that plays into the chocolate and mocha tones. Could be new world cab franc trying to be Loire

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• UrbanGrill wrote: 89 points

  September 24, 2021 - I have reassessed this wine somewhat. La Singulière is without doubt a good wine, but my feeling is that it's made in a more "international" style with more oak and less character of the grape and origin. The wine appealed a lot to me when I first tried it, but now I usually prefer les Picasses (even in less generous vintages) because of how it better expresses the grape and terroir.

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• Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 91 points

  December 8, 2020 - I opened this by mistake, meaning to open a Picasses 2012, so I opened one of the latter in any case, to compare.
  The Picasses was not great - apart from a ripple of cherry and strawberry mid-palate, it lacked fruit.
  The Singulière was much more appealing: full of fruit, it was like the Picasses with the volume turned up - the ripple mid-palate was a crescendo and was completed by a fresh, bright attack and a long finish.
  Whether or not la Singulière has been created at the expense of Les Picasses I don't know, but I know which one I will buy more of in the future - because it is only a few euros more anyway.
  Some have complained about oak - I didn't notice any and I normally would.

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• UrbanGrill Likes this wine:

  December 28, 2019 - Julian Marshall wrote an excellent tasting note, I don't have much to add. I have plenty of bottles left, will wait a few years before opening the next one.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type Red
• Producer Olga Raffault
• Varietal Cabernet Franc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard La Singulière
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Touraine
• Appellation Chinon

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• In Cellars 58 (60%)
• Consumed 39 (40%)

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