1990 Château Rayas Châteauneuf-du-Pape Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (82) Avg Score: 96.2 points

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  2/2/2024 - burlingtonm Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A good but not great Rayas and clearly this bottle did not show this wine at its best with some oxidization on the nose. It did get much better over the course of the evening with some sweetness with hints of raspberries & the ethereal quality that I was hoping to find in this wine.

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  12/1/2023 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Light to medium depth colour. No brick.
  Beautiful floral red berry and spice fragrance.
  Silky, refined structure. Perfect tannins, excellent acidity. Youthful red berries, darker spice, lifted tones, gorgeous drinking. Ageless.

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  11/30/2023 - Vini Ciclismo Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Lighter than the 78, vosne-like.
  Perfect fragrance, sweet, very perfumed, berries and cherry stone zest.
  Refined structure, silky, Burgundian, delicious. Plums, red berries, strawberries, ripe but old, no earth, superb.

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  11/24/2023 - tinybubbles Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Bottle towards the darker fruit and earthier end of the spectrum. Great depth.

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  10/22/2023 - JRockEsq Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Method: pop and pour; cellar temp; Cab glass; pretty sure this bottle was acquired on release and professionally stored since and seemed to be in perfect condition
  
  Nose: menthol, light soil, light raspberry, light mushroom, tree bark; very expressive
  
  Palate: raspberry coulis, tree bark; long finish of raspberry, minerals, graphite, tree bark, mint; dry; medium- body; medium- fine tannin; medium+ bright acidity
  
  Overall: Wow, this is the full package. Complex, elegant yet concentrated and expressive, and vibrant. It actually benefitted from air as the rasberry fruit filled out and became more intense after maybe 45 minutes or so. I only has maybe 1/2 glass over an our, and I wouldn't be surprised if the wine would've continued to improve beyond that point. Excellent wine.

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