2018 Olga Raffault Chinon Les Barnabés

Community Tasting Notes (26) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  4/9/2024 - Beaunedoc Likes this wine: 91 Points

  On opening, the wine was so severely reduced that I opened another bottle of a different wine. The wine demonstrated black fruits, black cherry, blackberry and black current. I appreciate the comments about tobacco nuances. At 24 hours, the wine was remarkably more pleasant. Pure cab franc, good ripeness, fine boned structure and quite enjoyable. The tannins were fine and the acids were ripe. Quite user friendly, but not a “pop and gulp” bottle at present.

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  11/1/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Could anything be more identifiable as Chinon to smell? Abundant, thick aromas of currants, framboise, pencils, stemmy spices, and smoldering gravel jam. Broad and darkly textured; cooled with stone and mint; leading to iron, tannic grip. Midway there's an insurgent bloom of intense lilac and violet. Finishes with alluring bitter baking chocolate and dappled creek. 2018 Barnabés is very drinkable, and ready to drink up.
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  Tastes great the next day, too. Amazing. Drenched with flavor. Briskly attenuated. Glossy ink.

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  1/16/2023 - Zweder wrote: 89 Points

  Slightly rustic bouquet with cherries and garrigue. On the palate cherries, red berries and chocolate, herbs and spices, beautifully fresh acidity and slightly sticky tannin. WOTN.

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  12/23/2022 - Ben Christiansen wrote:

  Green but in a very typical franc-y way. And supple mid palate with definition, and then a touch of a clip to it. Not that generous on the palate.

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  11/8/2022 - Elycohn Likes this wine: 91 Points

  The catch with these Chinon darlings who deliver so damn well is that you must love Cabernet Franc in all it's divisiveness. I do, but my first thought is this can't really be pleasing to everyone. They're astringent and abrasive and not as open armed hey how ya doing as most.
  
  Ogla's Les Barnabés is easier to get to know, though, and something I thoroughly enjoyed - one part green and two parts red. Stem, wood chips and cedar and double dose of finger staining wild raspberries.

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