Château Rayas
Réservé Châteauneuf-du-Pape Grenache Blend
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Southern Rhône, Rhône, France
Very Burgundian and quite emotional wine! In a beautiful spot but no rush to enjoy this. Easily will make old bones.
Very Burgundian and quite emotional wine! In a beautiful spot but no rush to enjoy this. Easily will make old bones.
Jul 30th, 2018
Make sure you are sitting when you start smelling this. Spice , earth , red fruit with hints of some darker fruit and incense leap at you. The palate shows more reticent giving you primary fruit and acid that lingers in the mouth. Swims in your mouth like a great white shark. Will not open another for at least 5+ years.
Make sure you are sitting when you start smelling this. Spice , earth , red fruit with hints of some darker fruit and incense leap at you. The palate shows more reticent giving you primary fruit and acid that lingers in the mouth. Swims in your mouth like a great white shark. Will not open another for at least 5+ years.
Jul 21st, 2018
Cedar, dusty earth, cured meats, olive, cracked black pepper, fennel, dried tobacco, cranberry, leather. So much going on!
Cedar, dusty earth, cured meats, olive, cracked black pepper, fennel, dried tobacco, cranberry, leather. So much going on!
Jul 8th, 2018
Elegant and extremely perfumed, a nice juicy red fruit core featuring ripe cherries, raspberries, and strawberries, followed by dried lavender, meaty beef jus, orange peel, undergrowth, sweet tobacco, charcoal, and intense black pepper. Delicious sweet red fruit flavors on entry with some dried apricots that lead to a umami rich midpalate filled with meaty notes, iron, and a slightly saline minerality that intermingles with intense peppery notes that linger for some time. Incredible silky mouth feel on this midbodied red, very light in structure but intense in flavors.
Elegant and extremely perfumed, a nice juicy red fruit core featuring ripe cherries, raspberries, and strawberries, followed by dried lavender, meaty beef jus, orange peel, undergrowth, sweet tobacco, charcoal, and intense black pepper. Delicious sweet red fruit flavors on entry with some dried apricots that lead to a umami rich midpalate filled with meaty notes, iron, and a slightly saline minerality that intermingles with intense peppery notes that linger for some time. Incredible silky mouth feel on this midbodied red, very light in structure but intense in flavors.
Jun 13th, 2018Rayas as it should be, feminin delicate pale and what a nose. Just love it
Rayas as it should be, feminin delicate pale and what a nose. Just love it
Jun 10th, 2018
2007 vintage. Took an hour to two to open up and find its balance. Was acidic at the start both in nose and taste. Fleshed out and softened with time. Pepper on the front. Just a lovely Rayas. Shouldn’t drink too fast!
2007 vintage. Took an hour to two to open up and find its balance. Was acidic at the start both in nose and taste. Fleshed out and softened with time. Pepper on the front. Just a lovely Rayas. Shouldn’t drink too fast!
May 17th, 2018
Lovely lean, warm red fruits and baking spices,
Lovely lean, warm red fruits and baking spices,
Apr 30th, 2018
Tasted blind. Deep dark scarlet. Opaque. Notes of black cherry, violets, cranberries, plum, kirsch and herbs. Syrupy richness in the mouth. Had that telltale Rayas signature impact, almost (but not) over the top. Guessed 90 Rayas CdP.
Tasted blind. Deep dark scarlet. Opaque. Notes of black cherry, violets, cranberries, plum, kirsch and herbs. Syrupy richness in the mouth. Had that telltale Rayas signature impact, almost (but not) over the top. Guessed 90 Rayas CdP.
Jan 28th, 2018