Jon Ebsworth

9.4

Mature brooding excellence. Enjoyed by the riverbank last May on the River Test. — 4 months ago

Max Hollander-Eberly

9.2

Garnet rim with a deep Ruby center. Classically Left Bank Bordeaux with dark fruit, green peppers, tobacco, gravel and pine on the nose, also displaying molasses, caramel, leather, gunpowder and riverbank. A touch of VA, seemed to be a bit more than an added complexity. Slightly underwhelming for a 1st Growth. — 7 years ago

Max Hollander-Eberly

9.5

Ripe cherries and riverbank. Amazingly fresh. — 7 years ago

Jan G

9.2

With Thai food with Jeannette — 8 years ago

Christine Havens

9.2

'Les Picasses' lies along a riverbank on a fairly steep slope that is primarily alluvial clay overlaying chalk and limestone. The vines are over 50 years old and the site is known to produce wines with fabulous purity and minerality. As such the Olga Raffault 'Les Picasses' Chinon 1989 has had time to mellow, the aromas are quite lovely—lavender, game, worn leather, a touch of barnyard, and cellar dust. There is a throaty, sensual wildness to this wine, punctuated by a vein of bright acidity and minerals. Everything I love in Loire Valley Cab Franc. — 11 years ago

Scott@Mister A’s-San Diego

9.2

2021 vintage. Last tasted 10.8.25 (9.2). Light-medium bod this visit vs medium bod previous go round. Fantastic nose still redolent of dark fruit-infused graphite, blood, night time riverbank mud and dark chocolate-covered cherry. Finish currently that artificial, grapey cough syrup mixed with espresso...a veritable ayahuasca potion flavor (don't ask me how I know) and fairly bitter. Wine all about the approach and handshake vs the actual transaction but still very interesting and worth the super affordable price. Not the biggest BDX so you could easily bounce into Rhône or Burgundy or Bandol to keep the party going. 1.6.26. — 6 months ago

Emma Michaels

10

Favourite Chardonnay!! 2012 Christmas edition from Aitken’s Folly...drank for my 26th Birthday! — 7 years ago

with Nikki

MaJ CappS

8.9

A lovely nose of lilacs growing on a riverbank, just about to bloom.

Tangy cherry, cranberry, white pepper, dark plum river stone. Light tannins wrap up the profile of this wine, as do the feathery tannins. — 8 years ago

David Kline

9.1

Black river rocks with a Luxardo cherry finish. Blackberry and snail shells with a raspberry sorbet on the riverbank nose. Satin finish, with a decadently ripe red plum that borders on cream. Fine strands of cedar, lingonberry and black currant reduction flood the culminative pronunciations. — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Shona Claremont

9.0

Slightly Sweeter than many rose wines but not sickly. Fruity and perfect for a summer lunch — 2 years ago

Max Hollander-Eberly

9.3

Amazingly complex wine. Medium Ruby ranging to a Garnet rim. Exploding out of the glass; cherries, strawberries, cacao, coffee, chocolate, hazelnut, gravel, brisket, pork belly with crackling, an intense sanguine nature, peonies, cardomun, riverbank, maple bacon, clove, numbing menthol, pepper. Truly amazing. Well structured! — 7 years ago

Jonathan McCarthy

9.0

Nose is super earthy, sweet-topsoil, pasture, riverbank clay. Soft red raspberry and alpine strawberry on the palate with a thoughtful smooth creek-bed pebble quality. Very pleasant and very versatile! — 7 years ago

Erik Nordman

9.3

Awesome Gamay from Seven Springs, by way of Evening Land. Has all the great qualities I love about good cru Beaujolais yet doesn't seem like it's trying to be *be*Beaujolais and it certainly reflects its Oregon origins and the warmer vintage with its ripe fruit and (relative) roundness, although that's certainly not to say it's not nimble and doesn't have great acid structure too because it is, and it does. Lithe, elegant, juicy, and supremely drinkable. Concentrated nose of ripe wild raspberries and red cherries, fresh rose and violet floral tones, mossy riverbank stones, and white pepper. Palate is echoes the nose pretty identically in terms of flavor. Medium (+) acid. Medium (-) body with lovely soft texture and a small amount of superfine tannin to help give a bit of extra structure. — 9 years ago

Mishell Paulino

8.9

Medium, fruity, smooth. 2012 hold riverbank competition. — 12 years ago