Community Tasting Notes 129

• Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 9, 2024 - Magnificent kaleidoscopic nose of blood orange, crushed strawberry, raspberry and spices. We keep coming back to it. When the tasting begins on the nose, it’s promising!
  
  The palate has a very fine attack, on strawberries and raspberries. Then everything comes together, in a very serene way, we then start with the blood orange and it unfolds with spices and earthy aromas. The juice is ample but in the Burgundian way, meaning that it is difficult to detect the warmth of Chateauneuf despite the intensity of the wine. On the other hand, the finish is much more alcoholic, but still integrated into the whole so that it remains consistent with the wine which remains harmonious over a long length.
  
  Excellent, I lack a marker on Rayas to say if it is great or not, but it remains an experience that will not be forgotten.

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• palfr2 wrote:

  January 20, 2024 - Internationale du Gout - Vertical series #1: Rayas dinner with Morrocan fusion food; 1/19/2024-1/20/2024 (Singapore): Matched against the Rayas 11 - this was known to be a winner going in...I and other participants had it before and it is in contention for the better Rayas of the 2000's. The nose! The Rayas nose but one or two notches more explosive and expressive than the next contender in that department. The palate is phenomenal but would not prove the most complex of the evening. It easily dispatched the '11 in the same flight.

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• wxs2102 Likes this wine: 96 points

  December 11, 2023 - @ Wu’s Wonton King NYC.WOTN. Poopy, earthy, exotic spices, nuanced, long 45+ second finish, crazy amounts of residual tannins left in glass and bottle. Lots of metallic iron notes. Unique and unmistakably Rayas.

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• dnnk88 Likes this wine: 97 points

  December 6, 2023 - Opened a 2nd bottle in less than a month. This was fresher, much like my friend’s bottle on 12 Nov. Served immediately after popping but should have give it an hour or so to breathe. Blue berries, grape skin bitterness initially. After some time, became perfumed with notes of dried flowers and potpourri. Strawberries, sandalwood. Rayas is Rayas

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• OddCollect Likes this wine: 96 points

  December 2, 2023 - Exceptional nose, perfumed like a bouquet of roses, and evolved in bottle as the evening went by. Best to not decant to preserve the delicate structure.
  
  The taste was fresh, sweet white fruit, rind, mild spice. Medium textured, with every sip, your palate realizes this is a special wine.
  
  The finish is long and savory.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2006
• Type Red
• Producer Château Rayas
• Varietal Grenache
• Designation Reserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Southern Rhône
• Appellation Châteauneuf-du-Pape
• UPC Code 4000147267263

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• Pending Delivery 26 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,574 (72%)
• Consumed 579 (27%)

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