2006 Château Rayas Châteauneuf-du-Pape Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (131) Avg Score: 94.6 points

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  4/23/2024 - Claret & CdP Gang Likes this wine:

  At a Rhone wine theme dinner with friends, served semi blind, thought a 05 Rayas, delicious, most people WOTN

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  4/22/2024 - le_franc_de_pied wrote: 94 Points

  PNP. Med to deep garnet. Lifted crushed red fruit (strawberries) with spices, an elegant nuanced mouthfeel, soft tannins, and long finish which fans out. Served blind in a lineup of South American wines. Will develop more, but very good now. A wine to contemplate

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  3/9/2024 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 95 Points

  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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  1/20/2024 - palfr2 wrote:

  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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  12/11/2023 - wxs2102 Likes this wine: 96 Points

  @ 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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