2015 François Raveneau Chablis 1er Cru Les Forêts

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  4/9/2024 - MarcPal wrote: 92 Points

  I agree with Lucastijn's review below. This bottle did not show as well as any other Raveneau i've had to date. The wine is medium/full bodied with stone fruits, lemon meringue, and an oily texture on the palate, but it lacked the typical tension, acidity and length. Unfortunately for the Raveneau, it was drank at the same time as a Dauvissat Foret 2014 which was firing on all cylinders and was the clear winner. All that being said, the Raveneau Foret 2015 remains a great wine, but it did not impress at this particular moment.

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  3/7/2023 - LucasTijn Likes this wine: 88 Points

  The 2015 Forêt is the weakest bottle of Raveneau I've had to date. This lacked much of the usual textural qualities that make Raveneau so special to me. Still a great wine, but not at the level I've come to expect from Raveneau. Lime peel, green apple, baked lemon, unripe papaya, vanilla powder and butter steamed leeks on the nose.
  The palate is a touch bitter, long and dense, very well balanced with plenty of acidity, but without the usual aquatic/oyster-like aromas that I typically find in Raveneau wines. Nice, worth revisiting in 10 years time.

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  11/11/2022 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 91 Points

  no wood on the nose, typical and raw chardonnay, rather stone fruits such as peach and apricot.
  
  much pressure on the palate, during the whole length (beginning, mid palate and finish), medium+ body, lacking a bit of tension.
  
  lacking a bit of acidity at the end which reduces the drinkflow.

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  6/10/2022 - NickA Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Simon's Dauvissat dinner (Lorne): Deeper in colour than its flight-mate. Very full, exotic nose, quite broad and mealy, with sansho leaf and IPA-like hops, plus a sassafras note that provided an obvious link with the 02 Les Clos drunk recently. Strutted its stuff boldly on the palate, but zippy enough, with good length and a bitterness on the finish. Excellent wine, though I'm unsure why people pay *so* much more for these than other Chablis producers' wines. Joint group #3 tonight.

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  4/27/2022 - beatles wrote: 94 Points

  Decanted. A core of citrus, layers upon layers, minerals, precision, vibrant acidity - very far fro maturity, very young and has yet to be released as a real Raveneau with all you bees wax and what not.
  #Villaret#AprilInParis
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