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Red
2004 Château Rayas Châteauneuf-du-Pape Reserve
Grenache
- France
- Rhône
- Southern Rhône
- Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Community Tasting Note
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Eric Likes this wine: 97 points
April 25, 2019 - Celebrating CellarTracker's Fifteenth Anniversary (Seattle, WA): Wow. Wow. Wow. I don't have a lot of Rayas in the cellar, and I don't often open them, but they are such a treat. Light in color, almost pale, and faintly cloudy, this is a surprisingly powerful wine that is far more intense than the color would suggest. Screaming of white pepper, pine needle and cherry. Hyper-cherry. This is such a joyous and pure expression of Grenache, faintly sweet on the approach but more spicy and savory as you sit with it. Just haunting. This is still extremely primary. Very pure.
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