2015 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses

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  3/21/2024 - dbg wrote:

  Classic Chinon. Still young. Expect further improvement. Excellent

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  1/29/2024 - JCGuthrie wrote: 92 Points

  Pours a lovely light red color. Complex nose of red berries, earth and green herbs. Same on the palate. Very approachable now, with a nice balance between fruit, acid and herbal character.

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  12/29/2023 - Wine MOB Likes this wine: 92 Points

  What a great exercise to taste the 15, 16 and 17 and see how vastly different the wines are. 2016 is big, ripe, fruit forward and unrestrained. 2015 and 2017 are much more traditional Chinon. 2015 is lean, with green bell pepper, tobacco leaf, iodine all hiding the sexy black currently fruits. Still very restrained and telling why the estate holds wine back for late releasing.

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  11/25/2023 - Julian Marshall Likes this wine: 93 Points

  The nose is a beguiling blend of rose, graphite, violet and strawberry, very appealing indeed. In the mouth, the attack is full of ripe, but not overripe, red berries, leaning towards red cherry and redcurrant, then comes a subtle wave of blackberry, very persistent, before other tastes of strawberry and blackcurrant hit the long finish, which is slightly chalky and green, so refreshing rather than cloying. Fantastic charm and elegance. Drinking well now, but with a long future.

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  7/20/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Hey! 1st of 4 bottles here, too. I'm taking the occasion of a break in the heat—thanks to a rainstorm—to ingurgitate something I expect to be a little more involved and subtle than the usual high summer drink. Charred hamburger sandwiches on the menu were a factor in choosing it, too.
  Decanted clear. The last murky ounce or two remain in the bottle. NOSE: pretty and pristine, with a cut crystal solo of compact little berries, the color of red, blue, and black ink. This ushers by implication a proper arrangement of cool earth, pencil lead, and laurel oil. MOUTH: withdrawn, certainly. Worn fingernail acidity barely registers, though its substance is obvious in the structure. The tannins are fanatically groomed and ripe. The fruit is a chambered string ensemble, with deep, chocolatey cello and mourning viola—perhaps behind a door. As it drinks and chews down a bit, there is a stirring of essential oils and juices from cassis and currant reserves. The trend is good as I break to add fire to the skillet. This wine is an object of significant purity and nascence. It will be some time before it develops anything like suggestions of mushroom or tea. Considering my options, it would be silly to open the next bottle before late 2025, and it might not peak before 2030. 91+
  TIME: I should have seen this coming! 24 hours later, resealed tabletop, the last 5 oz. are dreamy. Its like some invisible layer of obscuring carbohydrate dried up and blew away, revealing the sort of literary detail one tends to expect from this producer and this cuvée.

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