2007 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses

Community Tasting Notes (96) Avg Score: 91.0 points

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  2/5/2024 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Gorgeous smell of burnt hay, red berries, very light touch of pepper, earth, lead pencil. Tannins just melted down to a supple, refined maturity. This is the opposite of a big CA fruit bomb. Fully mature but going nowhere fast — you could keep this another decade without fear. Subtle, refined, pure class, and available for a song. Unbelievable value.
  Score: 93-94. Relative to expectations: +++

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  1/7/2024 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 94 Points

  A friend's b-day tasting (Washington, D.C.): Wow, this has aged wonderfully and showed well. I served this blind and a lot of folks were batting around 2010 Baudrys or even Clos Rougeard. Lots of spice on the nose (pepper, anise, roasted red pepper, black olives) with deep black cherry and black currant fruit. Lovely freshness and balance on the palate between smooth but structured tannins and fresh acidity. Cherry and plum fruit blended with sauteed oyster mushrooms, black pepper, some black and green olives, dried violets. Glad I've held onto this for a long time and looking forward to checking back in a few more years.

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  12/23/2023 - MrOctoberfest Likes this wine:

  This wine was just incredible tonight. Lots of raspberry and chalk in the beginning and throughout, but then some herbal leafy notes appeared along with white peppercorns. I’m saving all but the first glass for Xmas eve dinner, but this is such a showstopper tonight that I can’t believe this only cost me $26.99. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it outshines the 1982 Ducru-Beaucaillou at tomorrows dinner.
  
  EDIT: The matchup with the Ducru didn’t happen, but the Olga was fantastic the next day too. What made it so fascinating on day one had evolved into something else on day two. Perhaps more elegant and integrated.

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  7/14/2023 - drrobvino wrote: 92 Points

  Penultimate of 6 bottles, double decanted this wine around 1pm and served it to my tasting group around 7:30pm. This allowed the wine to truly open up, and the whole group seemed enamored with this bottle. Serendipitously, a good friend brought the identical wine from the 1993 vintage, so we tasted these two wines in succession.
  The wine was singing, showing off bright black and red fruits, burnt embers, a "just right" hint of bretty funk, with some spicy notes that lift the aroma and palate to a nice level. There is a structure and mouthfeel that shows up in this wine hours after being opened, and the tannins were beautifully gritty, married to very nice acidity and a relatively long and fruit/earthy finish.
  This wine was lovely, I had planned to drink my last bottle in the next year or so, but based on the decanting method used and the tasting this evening, I needn't be in a hurry. Drink through 2030+.

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  3/18/2023 - drrobvino wrote: 92 Points

  4th bottle from a 6 pack, last consumed 18 mos ago.
  This wine feels fully mature and perhaps simple upon opening, with resolved tannins and nice red fruits.
  We decanted it, and it really opened up over 2 hrs, showing off plum skin, creosote, a "just right" tad of barnyard funk, with mint and herbaceous notes to boot. On the palate, the wine gained complexity and mouthfeel over 2 hrs, with some noticeable yet fine tannins, firm acidity, and a long-ish finish filled with soil-driven flavors.
  Lovely wine, I will consume my remaining 2 bottles within the next 2 years. Beautiful CF and an amazing value at $25 USD.

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