Community Tasting Note

• Faryan wrote: 92 points

  December 23, 2011 - Decanted for 30 minutes and drank over 2.5 hours. Really a lovely cote du rhone, beguiling all of the stereotypes of the region (quite symptomatic of the Rayas stable). The nose is quite simply Burgundian. Dark cherries, raspberries, red cassis. Delicate and understated; this wine coaxes you to drink more of it, never bludgeoning or overbearing.
  
  On the palate, you have something more understandably rhone; lovely but subtle gaminess, supple, spicey fruit with lithe acidity. This wine is still in a primary phase of expressing its fruit, but quite accessible and not as "one note" as I had feared. With more air, it adds spicecake and additional layers of complexity. I can't wait to drink my other bottles in 5-10 years.

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