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2001 Château Rayas Côtes du Rhône Château de Fonsalette Cuvée Syrah
Syrah
- France
- Rhône
- Southern Rhône
- Côtes du Rhône
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Community Tasting Notes 7
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Jonathanmustang Likes this wine: 93 points
March 20, 2020 - L’oeil est rubis au pourtour très orangé, plutôt translucide
Le 1er nez est plutôt fermier et herbacé, celui-ci va s’estomper et mettre une heure pour révéler, voire exploser sur la griotte, l’olive, la prune, les épices. Ça pinotte c’est fidèle au producteur. Plus tard, quelques aromes de champignons et de cuir s’ajouteront à ce puissant nez
Le toucher est aussi puissant, une certaine sucrosité est perceptible, c’est asser thypique de la région! C’est viandeux et l’alcool est perceptible. J’y retrouve aussi ce puissant fruit, des herbes, une tonne d’épices et voir quelques aromes terreux mais délicieux
Finale de bonne longueur, le vin est encore bien vivant, ça pinotte la griotte ça garoche des épices, du cuir (je sais c’est contradictoire la griotte et le cuir) ça nous vole encore beaucoup de salive
Si ce n’etait pas de l’alcool, il ferait 95 pts facile !
délicieux !! 93pts2 people found this helpful Comment -
mike l. Likes this wine: 92 points
November 21, 2018 - Very good and caught it before it started to fade too much imo.
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Rezy13 wrote:
September 25, 2017 - Chapoutier Ermitage Tasting (Alpharetta, GA): Cloudy, lighter dull purple rim; tanned leather, pomegranate, cranberry, cocoa powder, olive, dusty, sour plum, herbaceous; slight weedy, currant, plusher tannin, plummy, root vegetables, Syrah like, lots of character, cigarette ash, singed fruit, olive; ready to go.
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d'Artagnan wrote: 92 points
June 29, 2017 - Bouche un brin rustique après l'Ornellaia, mais néanmoins élégante pour ce qui me semble un vin du Rhône, d'Emmanuel Reynaud, par sa texture, ses arôme et cette belle sucrosité épicurienne. Délicieux. 92 pts
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jfmontreal Likes this wine: 90 points
June 7, 2015 - I was hoping for more from that second wine from Rayas. Carafe for 3h and it wasnt enuf.
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By Stephen Tanzer
January/February 2003, IWC Issue #106 (link)(Chateau Rayas Chateau de Fonsalette Syrah Cotes du Rhone) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Lyle Fass
6/5/2004 (link)(Fonsalette Cuvee Syrah) Gorgeous nose of violets, cardamon, cinnamon,blueberry,smoked meat,white pepper. Keeps unfolding and gaining more aromatic complexity minute by minute. Huge blueberry is starting to come out. Some raspberry sorbet almost. What a nose! The palate has a very compelling crystallized fruit quality with tons of sappy fruit. Very focused sweet raspberry fruit and incredible inner mouth confiture. Long finish that has astounding purity. Definetly on the closed side but when this wine is closed is stil so damn expressive. Young and probably will need around 10-15 years of development to really strut its stuff. Great stuf.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2001
- Type Red
- Producer Château Rayas
- Varietal Syrah
- Designation Château de Fonsalette Cuvée Syrah
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Rhône
- SubRegion Southern Rhône
- Appellation Côtes du Rhône
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 2 (2%)
- In Cellars 76 (58%)
- Consumed 53 (40%)
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- VarietySyrah
- CountryFrance
- RegionRhône
- SubRegionSouthern Rhône
- AppellationCôtes du Rhône
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