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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 points

  January 11, 2016 - Level 3cm below the cork. Similar style to the Clos d'Isoré 1989 tasted yesterday, but not as powerful, masculine and structured. The nose is vinous and ripe, with a glowing warmth of roasted chestnuts and only a hint of minerals and older wood; the palate displays attractive and juicy cherry fruit, medium weight, and is upheld by lively acidity and ripe tannins, with a quite dominant dusty, chalky note; light and mature finish, dried cherries, cream, hint of cold tea. Holding up well, with more charm and fruit than the bottle tasted in August 2014.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 89 points

  August 6, 2014 - Single bottle, level 3cm below the cork; argilo-calcaire soils, 12 months on oak. Stony and and structured but, remarkably, not as austere or tannic as the double-magnum tasted in 2012. A sound and solid wine, holding up very well, but also dusty and old-fashioned, vinous but not very expressive or precise. Needs food, bavette steak comes to mind.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 88 points

  November 24, 2012 - Académie des Cinquante Claret / Piedmont Tasting (Restaurant De Hoefslag *, Bosch en Duin, Netherlands): Double-Magnum. Tight and minerally, energetic, quite tannic, not very peppery or expressive, dusty tannins, difficult, firm but lacks charm, good length.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type Red
• Producer Jean-Maurice Raffault
• Varietal Cabernet Franc
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Les Picasses
• Country France
• Region Loire Valley
• SubRegion Touraine
• Appellation Chinon

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