2017 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 92 points

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  4/27/2024 - Tobinski Likes this wine:

  Initially tight with overpowering heavy ash/smoke, this took a good 30 minutes to settle down and harmonize. Rather than classic cab franc green pepper, the savory came in the form of lead pencil, black olives, and cigar box. Blown away by the depth and structure for the price point.
  
  This was my first Les Picasses. Whereas Raffault's Barnabes is a pleasant bistro-style wine, this is way more serious and ageworthy, and I would have expected the price gap between the two to be greater.

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  4/25/2024 - brooklynguy Likes this wine:

  Pulled the cork at noon and poured off a taste - pretty tight. Decanted at 6 an hour before drinking. This is excellent wine, as it is in every vintage. There is plush dark fruit that is completely shot through with dried flowers and smoke. It reminds me more of some right bank Bdx wines more than it does of the green pepper and lead pencil that other Picasses vintages can show. Its perfectly balanced and at 12.5% I think this will age gracefully for a long long time, and should become a beautifully expressive and harmonious wine. The thing is, it's so delicious and satisfying now after a decant that it will be hard to keep my hands off it...

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  3/13/2024 - brooklynguy wrote:

  Very, very tight on day one, coiled and constricted. Not much less so on day two. I can smell and taste the potential but the wine is turned inward. The day two lack of change worries me. I want to love this wine at 12.5% but it’s not lovable now. That said, at some point with every vintage, I realize that it’s great and I should have bought more. Maybe it’s a bottle shock issue right now?

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  12/12/2023 - Donjcorleone Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Wildly fragrant aromas of blackberry licorice, earthy mushrooms and tobacco leaf that lead to a deep, full-bodied, core of ripe dark fruits and olive tones that fade on the finish.

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  10/5/2023 - Philippe_C wrote: 93 Points

  Very nice nose of black pepers, very dark fruit... Nice integrated tannins, cèpes de Bordeaux, good lenght of 20 sec, nice!!

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