Community Tasting Notes 35

• LB88 wrote: 94 points

  March 29, 2024 - This was stunning, so balanced with pineapples and apricots, and with air just kept improving. I think this is still so young and primary I would cellar my single bottle for at least 5 years to see how this will evolve and if it ll get more oily like what we would expect with rayas blanc

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• sdr Likes this wine: 94 points

  January 6, 2023 - Started out limpid light gold, then morphed to deep gold in a couple of hours. Pretty and complex bouquet of yellow fruits and quince. Slight bitterness ands interest. Much more subtle than some of the big bold Chave Hermitages. Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc can be lighter but just as flavorful as the Northern Rhône whites. One taster thought it was undrinkable oxidized but no one else agreed.

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• pbaek wrote:

  October 18, 2022 - Medium golden color. On orange confit, honeyed fruits, spices. Good freshness and acidity. Full on wine, deep and complex, requires food I think. Not sure where this is heading. Bagnols-en-Fôret with Niels.

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• beatles wrote: 95 points

  October 17, 2022 - A rich wine with great intensity, and the comparison with white Chave & white Burgundy is not bad, has that feel. Spicy, real Southern Accents here, some bees wax,yet with good acidity. Tasted vis-a-vis the 2004, this looses out though, the 2004 a good deal fresher.
  #Bagnol-en-Forêt

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• finediningnyc Likes this wine: 99 points

  March 24, 2021 - Don’t usually post wines not from my cellar but when a bottle is this perfect it needs to be written about! Oh man what a special wine this was. The rare Rayas blanc from the fantastic list at Addison. It was like the hypothetical child between Chave Blanc and a great White Burgundy. The opulence and textural richness of Chave Blanc combined with the minerality and acidity of White Burgundy. Drinking at its apogee, it’s rich, wide open and firing on all cylinders with an attractive waxy texture and layered complexity.
  
  Takes a turn to magic town after 2 hours open. It is highly focused with great power, structure, balanced acidity and tremendous depth. Torched pineapple, melon, melted butter, minerals and drizzled honey. There is superb concentration and midpalate intensity leading to a seamless transition to its exceptionally long finish that just won’t dissipate. Grateful to have snagged the last one! ❤️

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type White
• Producer Château Rayas
• Varietal White Rhone Blend
• Designation Blanc Réserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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• Pending Delivery 10 (3%)
• In Cellars 190 (59%)
• Consumed 122 (38%)

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