CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005
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2005

CHÂTEAU RAYAS Rouge 2005

Wine 2005 Châteauneuf du Pape

Optimal tasting window: 2018 - 2040

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97 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider October - 2021
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
With the price of Rayas being what it is today, I am not sure how much more often I will see these wines. What a treat! The nose, with its flowers, wild strawberry, kirsch, peppery cherry, and mild herbal slants hit it just right. But it was on the palate, with its purity, silky textures, length, and lift that stole the show. Wines like this should be tasted at least once so wine lovers know what the benchmark wines taste like.
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97 / 100
Adrian van Velsen - vvWine February - 2016
Adrian van Velsen - vvWine
Leuchtendes Rubin, jugendlicher Glanz. Die Nase ist Rayas pur, sehr tief, rauchig, duftig, floral, mit konzentrierter, roter Johannisbeere, Walderdbeere dazu aber auch dunkle Beerenfrucht, unglaublich viel Frische ist hier im Spiel, das ist ein Schnüffelwein par excellence. Der Gaumen weich, opulent beginnend, sensationelle Konzentration, wieder rote und dunkle Johannisbeeren, dazu Heu, Gräser, getrocknete Blumen, ein Kraftbündel von tänzerischer Schönheit, klar definierter Körper, unglaublich knackige Frucht, wow, das ist grosses Kino. Ein grosser Chateauneuf mit viel Reserven. Jetzt bis 2040+
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96 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate February -
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
(2-2016) Showing the more structured, savory and austere side of the vintage, the 2005 Rayas Chateauneuf du Pape will be 20-30 year wine. Offering up lots of darker fruits, gunpowder, ground pepper, truffles and licorice, it has full-bodied richness, a beautiful texture and no shortage of tannin or acid, both of which make themselves known on the finish. This is a wine to hide in the cellar for at least another 4-5 years, and it will still be going strong in 2030+. I don't see this matching the 1995 or 2007, but it's not far off.
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96 / 100
Falstaff April - 2012
Falstaff
Medium carmine garnet colour with ochre reflections, broad watery rim. Cherry confit with smoky undertones, dark berries, dried herbs, delicate ethereal notes of pine and mint. Complex, very good structure, ripe cherries, very balanced, very elegant and harmonious, already accessible, with a Burgundian impression, very seductive, good ageing potential
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94 / 100
Wine Spectator April -
Wine Spectator
(9-2008) Really pure, tangy and superracy, with fresh, bright minerality rippling through the red cherry, red currant, fresh garrigue, shiso leaf and licorice notes. The long, finely tuned finish lingers on and on, with very fine acidity carrying it all.
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Vintage Wine  2005
Appellation Châteauneuf du Pape
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Alcohol content 13.00% vol
Château Château Rayas
Château Rayas
Château Rayas

Founded in 1880 and passed down within the same family ever since, Château Rayas holds a singular place in the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation: its great red wine is a pure Grenache, aged without new oak in old large barrels, on a terroir of fine sands that gives it finesse and freshness rather than power. Rayas's white wine, rare, combines Grenache Blanc and Clairette.

The bottles offered here range from the great solar years — the 1988 wine and the 1990 vintage — to the return to the summit of the 2000s, with the year 2006, the 2010 wine and a more accessible 2011, passing through 2000. So many facets of an estate that has become one of the most sought-after references in the southern Rhône.

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