1989 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Picasses

Community Tasting Notes (132) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  10/26/2023 - LW31 Likes this wine:

  Super tonight. Really elegant and pure cab. Lovely minty note. Good depth. This pristine bottle still showing in perfect spot.

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  10/7/2023 - ylkim30 Likes this wine:

  October 2023 Loire Dinner (Mathilde - SF): Fully resolved tannins, great length and concentration, and elegance. Textbook, archetypal Chinon is a good way to describe it. And I have such fond memories of the '85 Raffault Picasses; one of the wines that turned me onto Loire Cab Francs. A trip down memory lane.

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  10/7/2023 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Loire Tasting (Mathilda Bistro, San Francisco): Perfectly mature, fully integrated wine with a lovely nose of dark fruit, leather, underwood, and tobacco. Good acidity on the palate with tarter fruit, cherries, forest notes, and a suggestion of sweeter fruit. Nice and lingering finish. Really lovely, perfectly aged wine. It's not the most complex wine but very satisfying and enjoyable.

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  10/7/2023 - ohne_musik wrote: 91 Points

  Berserker Offline (Mathilde Bistro - SF): Textbook aged Chinon. Complex, especially on the nose, with old library leather & books, humidor, earth and macerated cherries, with a bit of green pepper thrown in. Lots of concentration and depth on the palate, and although it's clearly excellent and even beautiful in a way, it doesn't really move me for some reason. Interesting to compare my reaction to the 02 Breton Perrières, which objectively is the lesser wine, but has a je ne sais quoi that stirs me deep down. Others liked this way more, putting it up near the Rougeard for red WOTN. Perhaps it's just the Raffault style. I'm very sorry Olga, it's not you, it's me!

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  6/10/2023 - Oberunter-5 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Lovely; at peak
  
  The wine at present displays a fantastic balance between primary and tertiary qualities. The nose on opening was completely earthy—wet soil, wet leaves, rainy autumn day in the forest, etc. With air, there emerged stewed plums, strawberries, raspberries, and pepper. The palate showed very similar qualities—but with lighter touches of red fruit—with enough tannic grip and depth to indicate this wine still has time at its peak.

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