Chateau Rayas, Cotes du Rhone, La Pialade

Todd’s wine. Clear and beautiful. Color went from orange to the lightest of red. Nose is earthy, and chock full of colorful fruits, iron, inside and out! Fruit in mouth is orange and strawberry, sweet, with pretty mineral. Lovely and light!!! 96

2014 vintage

Poured into the glass as a very light pink/copper colour. Elevated acid. Initially thought this was defective but luckily put the cork back in. On revisiting eight hours later the wine is still very pale but I’m getting a definite orange peel in the palate. Quite unusual but I don’t think this is faulty, just different! I’ll upload a photo of the colour.

2014 vintage

Robe clair Baies et épice Bouche légère et grande acidité Registre simple

2014 vintage

A bit VA but super delicious, rarely a cuvee focused on high acidity. Very vertical. Unique one in the rayas family.

2014 vintage

corked

2014 vintage

Simply delicious. Mediterranean herbs and berries. Gulps away too fast.

2014 vintage

Seductive red fruit aromatics with hints of dried herbs. Rayas derived pallet, red with faint med herbs finishing with a touch of liquorish. Juicy. Wine grew with more air, went down too fast. Kept growing till the last sip.

2014 vintage

Cooked / poorly stored, what a bummer...

2010 vintage

Again more bottle variation. Where other bottles seemed ~15 years old, this one feels 5. Much more primary, more structured, less elegant. It's a nice bottle of wine but lacking the magic that other bottles had. Wish I had left this one alone for 5 more years.

2014 vintage

Rating: 4,3/5,0.

2014 vintage

Gorgeous wine, consistent with previous notes.

2014 vintage

Light red, almost translucent, with an orange hue. Expressive bouquet of flowers, raspberries, chalk. Light bodied, feminine, incredibly precise and cool. Long and sweet cherry and raspberry flavors, white pepper. En danseuse. Captivating, seductive. Just such a great, unique showing as always. An evening chez Johnny & Dorthe.

2014 vintage

Tasting dinner in Paris. Consistent to my last tasting note. A little meager. I prefer the 2012.

2014 vintage

Still one of the greatest and most unique wines ever. I will never tire of this. There is some bottle variation - some are a bit more complex than others.

2014 vintage

Pours a transparent amber color, very light in body, with assertive acidity. Fully emblematic of the house style, the 2014 Pialade leads with angostura bitters and orange peel. Some detectable brett on the palate, it is bright, and maybe even a hair underripe as I found a very slight capsicum on the finish. To me this adds interest. It’s a vintage I’d buy again, but is really on the light end of the spectrum

2014 vintage

D’entrée la couleur annonce un vin singulier. Ceux qui ont eu le bonheur de goûter des Romané-Conti reconnaîtrons cette translucidité framboisée commune à ces 2 vins, qui sont issus de cépages bien différents. Ce 2014 était à point, couleur extraordinairement engageante, au nez les fruits noirs précèdent les épices de clous de girofle et de safran qui cèdent le pas aux roses et cigares d’infinis voluptés. En bouche c’est soyeux, gouteux, voluptueux, d’une longeur enviable. Vraiment un vin qui marquera …

2014 vintage

It took ten years for me to like this. When it was released, the pink grapefruit overwhelmed an otherwise delicate wine. Now that has died down and you get ripe, crisp red fruit and a garden's worth of sage. Almost green, but not. Has the power of tea, i.e. light. Nice acid.

2014 vintage

Definitely some bottle variation among these. The best versions are like aged rayas tea, this one is more like young rayas rose, if that makes any says. Merely very good, instead of great.

2014 vintage

Opened, poured a bit and then recorked for 5-6 hrs. The color here is so light, light red with a copper tint. The nose here is great, which seems to be standard with these Reynaud wines. Initially I was a bit disappointed with the palate, but with air it filled out and was quite delicious and went down very quickly.

2014 vintage

Consistent with previous note; super light red, grassy notes, strawberry, light and elegant, a “small” wine from a very good producer; completely likeable

2014 vintage

Expressive nose as we know it from the Rayas stable, with strawberry and cinnamon spice. Surprisingly translucent color pointing to a very light wine. The palate confirms it. Light and even a touch acidic. 13.5% Alc. This could have benefitted from some more hanging time. LOL, I thought that I would never write such a verdict for a Southern Rhone wine. Nose 94, palate 90

2014 vintage

Seems younger than the bottle earlier this year. Rayas light.

2014 vintage

Reynaud wine tasting, Pure Spirits (Gallina restaurant) : the bottle was opened and left uncorked for 24 hours, served in a Riesling glass -/- Very fragrant, spicy, fresh and dried versions of red cherries, currants, dried prunes, pomegranate, spicy and earthy, fine oak layers, some olive notes. With time you get more dried herbal notes lime chamomile, very elegant and welcoming Palate showing the same profile as the nose, dried raspberries, currants, cherries, med body, showing acidity, some thicker oak …

2010 vintage

E Reynaud smaking : Fargen er nesten helt rosé. Derfor er det overraskende hvor utrolig aromatisk nesa er. Roser, fakkellys og overmodne jordbær. Dette er virkelig en egenartet vin. I munn har den en søt og bløt frukt og en fet tekstur. Tanninene merkes nesten ikke. Derimot er syren veldig merkbar. Således er det en stor kontrast mellom denne og vinene drukket før. Kul vin som ligner på lite annet!

2014 vintage

Simply gorgeous !!

2014 vintage

Easily as good as the last bottle. Gorgeous nose with alpine strawberries, red cherry, rose petal, and baking spices. Nice acidity with more strawberry notes, red berries, spices, and pomegranate. Nice finish. I can't imagine how good the 14 Rayas might be tasting this wine...

2014 vintage

stemmy wine. here i get celery admixed with strawberry. lot of flavor, and in some ways reminded me of grappa (without the heat). savory. certainly gives a sense of Rayas. someone stated it was more like drinking an infusion rather than an extraction, which i think sums it up nicely.

2014 vintage

A lost Friday afternoon gathering – Mostly blind, some double blind (Blacksalt, Washington DC) : Exotic nose displaying cherry liqueur, white pepper, spicy spices, cannabis and earth. Cannabis and white pepper make to guess Cayuse bionic frog initially. It is very Burgundian so I change my mind and am very certain it is Rayas. Really exotic nose displaying cherry liqueur, cherry compote, incense, cannabis, white pepper, tobacco, spicy spices and crushed rocks. Excellent concentration, very finely layers slightly dry cherry …

2010 vintage

Vraiment meilleur après 24 heurs d'ouverture. Excellent.

2010 vintage

Calm, very beautiful aromatics of pomegranade. A fine wine indeed!

2010 vintage

Grand vin. La signature Rayas est bien présente. Notes explosives de poivres et de fraises. Sublime!

2010 vintage

Dégusté avec Vieux Donjon 2011, Roulier et Stéfania Pepe 2003. En simple l'aveugle: couleur Rayas, nez de Rayas et bouche de Rayas, ne pouvait-etre autre chose que le Pialade de Rayas. Fut le gagnant de la soirée. Un superbe vin d'entré de gamme, qui déculote la plupart des grands du Rhône.

2010 vintage

Great length, super fine tannins which make this very drinkable at a young age, although it has a persistent 'puckering' on the palate so you know the tannin is there which will keep this wine together for many years to come. Color is dark crimson, and fruit is primary with flavors of bush black fruit, a little spice. Great wine, love to try again with more age. As others have said, drinks more Burgundian than your usual southern rhone...not your …

2010 vintage

Tuesday Night Double Blind $60+ (Alpharetta, GA) : Dull maroon core with pale orange rim; spicy, tomato soup, cranberry, sweaty, Band-Aid, sweet cherry, complex; great texture, seamless, spices galore, roses, algae, nori; awesome, delicious, so inexpensive though hard to find.

2010 vintage

2 hour slo-o. Similar to the ‘09 this is one of the best Cotes Du Rhone I have ever tasted. Gorgeous bright red translucent hue. Peppery palate with lovely pure fruit with superb balance, complexity and a lengthy finish. A wine with soul!

2010 vintage

Grenache (with some syrah, cinsault...) like it should be. Cherry color, pale and transparant. Intense aroma's of jammy red fruit, peppery and spicy. Immediately strong taste, goes on to fill the mouth with its intense, juicy aroma's. But there is a freshness there that makes it truly extraordinary.

2010 vintage

Nose - black pepper, garrigue, liquered cherry. A slight hint of funk Mouth - black pepper, fruit punchy, hint of fruit licorice, slightly bitter finish, nice enough but fully falling within the Côte de Rhone spectrum and not really approaching the pignan or rayas.

2010 vintage

Bright floral sweetness that will hopefully mellow and integrate better with time. Its a bit like punch at the moment.

2010 vintage

Light red color,this is very burgundian in style.Pretty nose with stawberry,kirsch,flowers,blond tobacco,oriental spices.On the palate it is medium bodied with very good balance and smooth tannins,but a bit short on finish.Very similar in style to his big brother Cdp Rayas,this is just a much lighter version.Nice !

2010 vintage

Dark crimson. Highly peppered both aromas and palate. Deep and full with the pepper, grilled meats, roast, smoke aromas, moss, and mushrooms. Still tight, needs air.

2010 vintage

($23) Lightly colored, nose of tomatoes…suspect heavily Grenache based. Medium bodied, strawberry, zesty fruit. Moderate acidity which kicks up in the finish and takes on a lemony quality. Can't say I am particularly impressed. Is this supposed to make me want to taste some of the Rayas Chateauneuf? Come on, this light weight thing is barely worth bottling. Highly disgruntled

1998 vintage

Rayas Tasting @ EOS (San Francisco) : Light red in color, with red fruits on the nose. Soft and fruity on the palate. Some sage and black pepper hints. Low in tannins and ready to drink. Nice bistro wine.

1998 vintage

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